DECIDUOUS TREES OF THE FARM 147 
Study 18. The Deciduous Shrubs of the Farm 
The program of work will consist of a trip for shrubs to the 
places where they grow best: borders of woods, fence-rows, 
or roadside. A dozen or more of the native species found 
should be carefully compared as to characters indicated by 
the headings of the table on pages 148 and 149. 
The record of this study will consist of: 
1. The completed table. 
2. Contrasted diagrams of a few stems from clumps of 
(a) a quick-growing, and (0) a slow-growing shrub, the annual 
increments of growth to be marked with the years of their 
origin, as in figure 57. The end of each season’s growth 
is usually evident by reason of the clustering of buds at 
the tip, if it be wholly hardy, or, by dead tips with each 
season's growth starting from, lateral buds, if not all the 
growth be matured in any season. Untrimmed wild shrubs 
should be chosen for this. 
3. An annotated list of all the wild shrubs found, 
arranged in the order of their relative abundance in the 
several situations visited as follows: a, shrubs of the 
woodland undergrowth; 0b, shrubs of the waterside; 
c, shrubs of the fencerow, and of other open sunny places, 
etc., listing thus separately the shrub-associations of the 
more typical situations visited in the course of the trip 
afield. 
