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THE OCCIDENTAL PLANE. 



quisite arrangements for the preservation of the 

 bud, which confirms the exclamation of the poet : 



" Each leaf and bud 

 Doth know I AM." 



Trees, for the most part, produce new buds 

 in the axil or angle between the leaf-stalk and 



LEAF- STALK OF OCCIDENTAL PLANE. 



the stem, and in many cases these buds attain a 

 large size nearly a year before they expand. 



