



38 THE GROWTH AND PARTS OF PLANTS 
for, as we have seen, the winter 
scales and leaves are seated so in 
the bud. Hach year, then, a girdle 
of scale scars 1s formed on the shoot. 
How old is the 
branch you have? 
Get a shoot which 
has several girdle 
scars on it. Cut 
it through, be- 
tween the girdle 




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Fie. 69. Shoot of walnut showing leaf scars, 
axillary buds, and adventitious buds (buds 
coming from above the axils). 
Fig. 70. Shoot and bud of oak. 
Fig. 71. Two-year-old shoot of oak showing 
where the greater number of branches arise. 
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