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The winter shoot. You 
should have a shoot two or 
three feet long, branched, 
if possible.” See how it is 
marked. The N 
leaf sears. eT 
These are very 
large, and are in pairs op- 
posite each other, just 
as the scales are seated 
in the bud, only the differ- 
ent pairs are farther apart 
on the stem. Who can tell 
what the row of pin holes 
in the scar means? Perhaps 
you can tell better later 
on. What else do you see 
on the shoot? There are the 
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ee What do they mean? When 
the bud begins to grow in 
the spring, the winter scales and leaves are 
thrown off. Each tiny scale and winter leaf 
leaves a scar on the shoot just as the large sum- 
mer leaves do, only it is a tiny | 
FIG. 68. Shoot of 
scar. But there are many scars poplar showing 
leaf sears and 
close together all round the shoot, — juas. 

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