39. The apprentice in your horticulture lab accidentally trims all of the axillary buds from a particularly prized specimen. After realizing his mistake, he rather glumly asks you, as lead horticulturalist, about the effects on the plant. You predict that (A) the plant will die rapidly from this loss. (B) the plant will regrow the lost buds. (C) the plant will continue its vertical growth and will be a tall and skinny variety. (D) the plant will continue its horizontal spread and will be a wide but short variety.