plate I, 
I’LATE I . — Showing the junction of the pith of a younger shoot of the stem with the pith of an older shoot of tl,» > , 
the stem with the growths of the older shoot of the stem ; the junction of the pith of a branch with the nith of I , ? . ® JUnctl0n of the K rowths of the 5’ 0un " ( ' r shont of 
with the growths of a shoot of the stem above it, of the same age as the branch, and witli the erowtbs : the junction of the growths of the same branch both 
of the ffrnwthe of a iintni* s*n — u -ia *i-..—* — —- - ... * shoot of the stem below it, a year older than the branch , the junction 
disjunction of an inclosed dead branch from 
- W..WWV UI Vise OICIII mm: 11, WI I.lie Brtiiic aai nllv.II, illlU With tl)C CTOWths of *1 elm > e .■ f' 
of the growths of a living branch witli the growths of the 6tem, and consequently the increasing | v .,„ , " St ' m ,H ' 0W il ’ * y<'»r older 
the stem.wood, the healing-over the end of a dead or cut branch. mcreas.ng base on whrch a branch stands ; the disjunction o 
