Where do you look for flower-cluster scars?
Which buds are the strongest?
How does this affect the appearance of the tree?
What makes the ends of the branches so rough?
Compare the arrangement of the twigs and branches with Beech and Elm, with Horsechestnut and Lilac.
TULIP-TREE (Liriodendron Tulipifera).
The buds are small, flat, and rounded at the apex. They are sheathed by scales, each leaf being covered by a pair, whose edges cohere. The outer pair are brown and are the stipules of the last leaf of the preceding year. The leaves are conduplicate, as in Magnolia, and have the blade bent inwards on the petiole (inflexed). Their shape is very clearly to be seen, and no bud is more interesting in the closeness of its packing. Axillary buds are often found within. The flowers grow high upon the trees and towards the ends of the branches.
The leaf-scars are round with many dots. The scar of the stipules is a continuous line around the stem, as in Magnolia.
CHERRY (Prunus Cerasus).
The leaf-buds are terminal, or in the axils of the upper leaves of the preceding year; the flower buds are axillary. 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.