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incliiT-Hl to ui-()\v straight up, or vertical, and when a ti'ee is young, 

 sometimes out ward at an angle. Fruit limbs grow from one foot to 

 2-^' feet long and are distinguished l)y their position on the frame of 

 the tree and by the end of tlie limb, which shows matured leaves and 

 indication.s of buds forming at the tip. Sometimes a blo.ssom occurs 

 and often a little cluster of lemons. Fruit spurs are the growths 

 that come on these fruit limbs, as also on the framework of the tree, if 

 the tree is of a fruiting nature. 



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Fig. 83. — Showing lemon tree one year 

 in the nursery, cut back ready to plant in 

 orchard form. (Original. ) 



There is another growth of the lemon tree about which thei'e is a good 

 deal of discussion, suclicrs or sucker wood. A growth, oi- sprout, is only 

 a sucker when it grows on that part of a tree already developed where 

 it can not be used. The question has been raised, AVlien is a sucker not 

 a sucker? I would answer it this way: when something unexpectedly 

 happens to some part of the tree so that the sucker can be used, not for 

 a fruit limb, but as a part of the tree. Several times I have had this 

 experience. A large limb has si)lit off one side of a tree, just above it 

 being a sucker from one foot to sixteen inches long. The split limb was 

 taken off entirely and the abrasion smoothed off and painted. The 

 sucker Avas tied to the main part of the tree to prevent its breaking off 



