TBE DEFLECTED AXIS OF GROWTH 



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old flowers are seen on the squared or truncate 

 end. While flowers were bear- 

 ing on this place (two years 

 ago), the two lateral buds gave 

 rise to branches. One of these 

 branches grew to ft, and was 

 broken off by some accident ; 

 the other grew to e, and there 

 made a fruit-bud. Last year a 

 lateral bud gave rise to the 

 branch 6 i, and two lateral buds 

 gave the branches ef and e Ji. 

 When plants bear flowers from 

 the terminal buds of the grow- 

 ing shoots, they cease making 

 a leader or central trunk, but 

 branch diffusely. 



11. Twigs of one of the 

 bushy dogwoods or osiers are 

 seen in Fig. 6. These were cut 

 in early spring, and, therefore, 

 show what took place the year 

 before. The one at the right 

 bore a cluster of flowers last 

 year, for the remains of the old g^^^^^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^ 

 bunch still persists. As this 

 cluster was borne upon the very tip of the twig, 

 no terminal bud could form to continue the direct 



Fig. 6. 



