THE AUSTRIAN PINE 1 87 



we can not find out until we know the tree better. 

 What was the first secret kept from us ? When may 

 we surely know the secret of the bud ? Tell the 

 secrets which you know of the pointed buds, and 

 the one which the tree is keeping from you, but 

 which you think you can guess. 



Now, let us see if we can find out the secret of the 

 round, flat buds. [The children find that the outside 

 covers are much like those of the pointed buds, but 

 inside of a few covers they find from five to ten tiny 

 buds crowded all the way around a small, pointed 

 bud. The inside covers are soft and transparent. 

 When uncovered, the children are apt to think they 

 have again found cones. ] But where do we find 

 these buds ? Do you find such clusters of cones on 

 the tree ? [The children notice the resemblance be- 

 tween the pointed bud in the center here and the 

 pointed bud we examined before. They tell what 

 they think this bud contains and what they think 

 may grow from the center bud.] The naked, tiny 

 buds are placed in alcohol with a bud as we found it 

 on the tree. What shall we label it ? 



There is still another kind of bud, a clustered 

 bud, not covered to appear like a single bud as was 

 the preceding. Does it contain a pointed bud? 



