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Updated: May 9, 2025
A multitude of dwarf leaf-buds took the place of the colossal head. This is the Brussels sprout. Next comes the turn of the stump, an unprofitable, almost wooden, thing, which seemed never to have any other purpose than to act as a support for the plant.
The flower-cluster leaves a concave, semicircular scar, in the leaf-axil. Balm-of-Gilead. 1. Branch in winter state: a, leaf-scar; b, bud-scar. 2. Branch, with leaf-buds expanded. 3. The terminal buds are the strongest and not very many axillary buds develop, so that the tree has not fine spray. The leaf-arrangement is alternate, on the 2/5 plan.
In the red sunlight of the morn I have seen the trees with their wintry sprays and brown leaf-buds all closed when there fell a soft and refreshing shower again the sunbeams lit the sky, and oh! the glorious change the maple laughed out with her crimson blossoms and fair green leaves the beech-tree unfolded her emerald plumes the fairy stems of the aspen and birch were dancing in light, and the stately ash was enwreathed with her garland of verdant green the spirit of spring seemed to have waved o'er them the wand of enchantment.
The tree is one of the few in the Amazon region which sheds all its foliage before any of the new leaf-buds expand. The naked branches, the sodden ground matted with dead leaves, the grey mist veiling the surrounding vegetation, and the cool atmosphere soon after sunrise, all combine to remind one of autumnal mornings in England.
This is because the dry, starchy food stored in the carrot becomes soft and soluble, and the supply of proper food and the warmth of the room make the leaf-buds able to grow. It is also a pretty illustration of the way in which stems always grow upward, even though there is enough light and air for them to grow straight downwards. Why this is so, we do not know.
There is but one bud in each axil, and usually two or three flowers in each bud, but the leaves on the twigs are crowded and the flowers therefore appear in clusters. The blossom-buds are larger and more rounded than the leaf-buds.
How refreshing and strengthening it was upon the tableland that spring afternoon! The red leaf-buds of the bilberry-wires were just bursting forth, and the clumps of gorse were tinged with the first golden flowers. Every kind of moss was there carpeting the ground with a bright fresh green from the moisture of the spring showers.
The landscape had altered its aspect. Miss Alicia pointed out bits of freshening grass, was sure of the breaking of brown leaf-buds, and more than once breathlessly suspected a primrose in a sheltered hedge corner. A country-bred woman, with country-bred keenness of eye and a country- bred sense of the seasons' change, she saw so much that he had never known that she began to make him see also.
The bursting of the leaf-buds brings me a tender thought of the one dear heart that gives me all its spring; and whenever I see the smile of a child, a generous look, the flash of sympathy in an eye, it makes me warm with swift remembrance of the one I love the best of all, just 'as a lamplight will set a linnet singing for the sun.
How do the flower-buds differ from the leaf-buds in position and appearance? What is the arrangement of the leaves? What other tree that you have studied has this arrangement? How old is your branch? Where would you look to see if the flower-cluster had left any mark? Why is it that several twigs grow near each other, and that then comes a space without any branches?
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