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CHAPTER VI 
BUDS AND WINTER SHOOTS 
Do buds have life? When the leaves have fallen 
from the trees and shrubs in autumn the forest looks 
bare and dead, except for the pines, spruces, hollies, 
and other evergreens. The bare tree or shrub in the 

Fic. 59. Winter condition of trees and shrubs. 
garden looks dead in winter. But examine it. The 
slender tips of the branches are fresh and green. If 
we cut or break a twig, it is not dry like a dead stick. 
It is moist. It seems just as much alive as in the 
summer, when the trees are covered with green leaves. 
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