terminal bud
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terminal buds
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It covers every portion of the tree from the topmost terminal bud to the deepest root tip like a living blanket.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 by Northern Nut Growers Association
When removed from the nursery rows for final planting, prune away nearly or quite all side branches, leaving only the terminal bud if the trees are not more than six to eight feet high.
From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. Fuller
If we followed up the sheath of cambium which envelopes a stem, into a terminal bud, we should find that it passed without break into the protoplasm of the bud.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
The fourth is not cut at all owing to its shortness and weakness, its terminal bud being allowed to grow to draw strength into it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
A year ago, in the spring of 1920, a terminal bud that had formed in 1919 expanded and gave rise to this rapidly growing shoot.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
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