Crossword-Solution: AXIL 4 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Every shoot and every fruit is produced above the insertion [in the axil] of its leaf which serves it as a mother, giving it water from the rain and moisture from the dew which falls at night from above, and often it protects them against the too great heat of the rays of the sun.

When the reader remembers that every dormant bud in early spring is a possible branch, and that even the immature buds at the axil of the leaves in early summer can be forced into immediate growth by pinching back the leading shoot, he will see how entirely the young tree is under his control.

Each lateral will start again from the axil of the leaf that has been left, and having formed another leaf, should again be cut off.

How curious that the majority of people show their appreciation of a flower's beauty only by selfishly, ignorantly picking every specimen they can find! Creeping Wintergreen; Checker-berry; Partridge-berry; Mountain Tea; Ground Tea, Deer, Box, or Spice Berry _Gaultheria procumbens_ _Flowers_--White, small, usually solitary, nodding from a leaf axil.

Pale yellow flowers spring from the axil (axilla) of the leaves, and there is an abundance of small seeds in the fruit which, as mentioned, is characteristic of the variety.