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LESSONS WITS PLANTS 



the quince. Fig. 54 is such a twig. There is a 

 fruit-scar at d. We know that the shoot grew 

 the same year in which the fruit was borne; 

 and this is further proved by the presence of 

 axillary buds upon the shoot between c and d. 

 Another fruit was borne at b. While this latter 



Branch of the small-fruited hickory. 



fruit was growing, side shoots started off in two 

 directions, one extending to / and the other to 

 g. During the following winter the tip of the 

 branch g died, and in the spring two shoots 

 sprung from it, one growing to d and bear- 

 ing a fruit, and the other to e and not bearing. 

 The branch bf made a number of lateral shoots, 



