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Show Rosebud Breaks Into Shoot. Flowers seem so highly specialized that one does not associate them with the vegetative or growing part of the plant. Vet there Is no doubt that blossoms have had a leafy origin even though this Is not always very obvious. A strange case of flower breaking way into a shoot is recorded. A rose bush growing In a garden in Natal, South Africa, was responsible for tha curiosity. The bud, instead of expanding expand-ing Into a flower, rent up a stalk, at the end of which was borne a rose that was finely developed. |