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And if it should be produced, it would indicate Low greatly 

 in the mango the anatomical difference between a leafy shoot 

 and the inflorescence, is a direct response to the needs of the shoot. 

 Miyoshi (Journ. Coll. Sci. Imperial Univ. Tokyo, xv., 1901, 

 p. 459, quoted from Just's Jahresbericht, 1903, ii., p. 634) showed 

 that the repeated plucking of mulberry leaves, as is done for feed- 

 ing silk-worms, leads to an arrest of the growth of the wood as one 

 of the signs of the disease produced. In our abnormal branch, 

 where towards its upper part the leaves occupied a part of the 

 larger circumference, the small bundles occupied a smaller part of 

 the circumference ; so that in anatomy as in morphology, the 

 branch had progressed from the fertile towards the sterile condi- 

 tion. But as we have seen, the sterile condition — greater develop- 

 ment of wood— passed down it through the lower wholly fertile 

 part on the side where above the leaves were. 



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