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Some of the responses have little to do with spring — the daffodil has been growing roots since September, the grape hyacinth of early April sprouted its leaves six months before, the plump terminal bud of the rhododendron has been ages in the making.

The ends of its long branches apply themselves to the ground and begin to pierce its surface, the incipient leaves of its terminal bud becoming metamorphosed into roots.

Growing from the apex by a terminal bud or by the apical cell only.

Fertile catkins solitary or aggregated immediately below the terminal bud, or lateral on the young shoot, consisting of imbricated carpellary scales, each in the axil of a persistent bract, bearing a pair of inverted ovules at the base.

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.