PRUNING AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PEACH TKEE. 



the Peach tree, upoa tlie young as well as upon the older wood ; and pruning can 

 make it push from very old wood. 



9. Fruit-buds (Figs. 1, h; 2, c; 3, d ; 4, 5, g). — This contains the rudiments 

 of the flower. It is also covered with scales ; but its form is always rounder than 

 that of the wood-bud. Fruit-buds 



are only found on one-year-old 

 wood. 



10. There are upon the Peach tree 

 buds which are single, double, triple, 

 or more numerous. 



11. The sino-le bud is in c^eneral 

 a wocd-bud, from which a shoot 

 proceeds. We however see flower- 

 buds by themselves ; such are those 

 marked 6, Fig. 1. 



Most commonly the fruit-branch 

 that bears them is terminated by a 

 wood-bud, or growing-point, the use 

 of which is to draw into this branch 

 the sap necessary for the nourish- 

 ment of the flowers and fruits ; but 

 it may happen that by accident or 

 abortion this eye does not exist ; yet 

 the loss of the fruit may not result. 

 In 1844 I observed numerous in- 

 stances of this, and further on I 

 shall have to refer to them. 



12. Double buds generally consist 

 of a wood bud and a flower-bud. 

 Fig. 2 shows this kind of buds : a, 

 wood-buds ; c, flower-buds. 



13. In the triple buds, such as are 

 seen at d, Fig. 3, two are flower- 

 buds, the other a wood-bud. There 

 are also triple buds which consist of 

 three wood-buds. But this sort does 

 not show itself except on the shoots 

 of young Peach trees, or on those 

 that are very vigorous. It is always 



Fk'. 1. 



Fiff. 5. 



Fisr. 2. 



Fig. 3. 

 I shall 



the middle eye that is the strongest ; sometimes those at each side die off", 

 state, further on, the procedure adopted in pruning them. 



14. Quadruple buds, although they appear as such, have always in the midst of 

 them a pushing-eye that is at first hardly visible, which leads one to believe that it is 



