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Title: The gardener's assistant; a practical and scientific exposition of the art of gardening in all its branches
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Robert, 1798-1869 Watson, William, 1858-1925
Subjects: Gardening Horticulture
Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Co.
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the root, proceed from a single bud, itwill be necessary, for the sake of precision, todistinguish the progressive stages of the growthof those parts. The bud produces a shoot onwhich, during the summer, leaves and buds aredeveloped. From the time that this shootpushes in spring till its leaves drop in autumn,we propose to designate it as a young shoot.From the time that the young shoot ceases toelongate for the season, becomes mature, anddrops its leaves in autumn, until it begins topush young shoots in spring, we shall call it ashoot. After the shoot begins to push budsand form young shoots, it may be called ayoung stem if occupying the position of a stem;if otherwise, a young branch. After the youngbranch has matured shoots, or when it is twoyears old, it may be termed a branch. As the young shoot proceeds in growth, 170 THE GARDENERS ASSISTANT. leaves are produced at every node or joint,singly, in twos, or in threes; and in the axilsof each leaf either flower-buds or leaf-buds are
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Fig. 968.—Nectarine. Pine Apple. (;.) formed. In the following spring the blossomsopen before the leaf-buds expand, and in thecourse of the season the fruit is brought tomaturity. The fruit is also occasionally borneon short shoots somewhat resembling spurs,which are terminated by a cluster of blossom-buds, with a leaf-bud or growing point in themiddle, and which, instead of growing, remainsalmost stationary. Spurs of this sort are,however, of rare occurrence in trees that aremanaged so as to be properly furnished withsuccessional bearing shoots. Such spurs shouldnot be encouraged on trees trained to walls ortrellises, as they are apt to snap off when theheavy. For bearing the crop, we fruit gets

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