BUDS. 



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arc essentially the same, the diflTcrence observed being occa- 

 sioned bv the medium in whicli they are developed. We have 

 som the co:n/iion red plum in the loose earth of a garden put 

 tbrth bu Is from a root 'vith as much regularity as trom the 

 branches. 



The buds scoin to possess in some respects the nature of 

 f;eeds, although in others tliey ditFcr. The seed produces the 

 ppccies or original type, while the bud perpetuates the variety; 

 hence the practice of grat'iing choice fruit. The bud will 

 continue the characters of the individual variety, while the 

 seed would produce merely the species, with perhaps none of 



the pecidiaritics of the 

 plant from the fruit of 

 which the seed was taken. 

 60. The manner, in 

 which the rudimentary 

 leaves arc folded up within 

 the buds, is a subject of 

 much curiosity and inter- 

 est. Althoujih the arrange- 

 men I in different plants is 

 very unlike, yet in the 

 same species there is a re- 

 markable unitbrmity. This 

 su!)jcct has been termed, 

 vernation^ or germation, or 

 lirefoliation. 



1. Appresscd ; in which 

 the surf ices of the leaves 

 are applied to each other 

 without being roiled, as in 



JJf he Misseltoe, fig. 32, a, 



2. Coiidirplicale ; when 

 the leaves are fokied in- 

 wardly upon themselves &; 

 placed side by side as in 

 the rose, finr. .'32, b. 



3. Imbricafc ; where 

 tiiey lie over each other, 

 breaking joints, if we may 

 tise the expression, that is, 

 when the middle of one 

 leaf corn sponds to the mar- 

 gin of the two williin it, 

 as in the Ldac, c. 



