366 PHYTOLOGY. 



When a bud contains a flower, it also contains everything relative to it. 



A bud and a leaf are generally, if not always, formed together, 

 whether on the side or the termination of a shoot. 



Buds in most trees, the Scotch Fir and Weymouth Pine excepted, 

 grow on the sides of the growing stalk, forming as the stalk forms, 

 each bud having a leaf annexed to it. A bud never forms on the side 

 of a growing stalk, or on any part of a stalk after it is formed ; but as 

 the external surface of a tree is growing every year, or rather as there 

 is a new layer formed every year, there are places formed in the bark 

 which answer the purpose of a bud, when such place is stimulated to 

 action by cutting off the intelligence with the parts above, which obliges 

 it to supply what appears to it to be wanting ; but all trees have not this. 



It is not clear to me but that these parts were originally buds, which 

 did not sprout, and by that means became flatter and flatter, but 

 still retained the disposition of a bud when called upon. All buds 

 are not intended for branches, only for leading stalks, in case the stalk 

 should be broken, as in the Bean. 



The lateral buds in many trees appear to be so much a termination 

 of the shoot, that the leading bud is obliged to strike off obliquely, 

 which is more or less the case when the buds form alternately. It 

 is remarkably so in the Lime-tree, making the whole shoot after it is 

 formed take a zigzag course. But when the buds arise or are formed 

 in pairs or in clusters, then the leading shoot goes on straight, being 

 equally influenced on each side or all round. Most shoots go on in a 

 straight line with the stem, whether of a branch or main trunk ; but 

 the Virginian Creeper would seem to be always growing backwards, 

 having its last-grown part bent backwards on itself for two inches, and 

 as it grows, it is in the same proportion unbending itself. 



Probably every tree has in its nature an annual cessation in growth. 

 This is perhaps better illustrated in the Lilac than most others. 

 This plant terminates its summer growth in two buds, exactly similar 

 to those on the sides at the attachment of the leaves; and the bud 

 has no disposition to grow till it has lain dormant some time. Query : 

 What is the reason of all this ? Is it because the last year's bud has 

 fully expended itself, therefore can shoot no further, and must form 

 a fresh bud to go on with next year ? 



The bearing part of every vegetable is either one year old or of the 

 same year, so that those parts that are older are only employed in the 

 support of the new in every mode of support. 



Most plants that have branches, but not all, form in each shoot 

 tbe buds of the branches of that shoot ; which either shoot out the same 

 year, or wait till the year following ; or both may happen in the same 



