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8. The Wood-bud (Figs. 1, 2, 8, 1, 5, a) is an embryo shoot, 

 covered with imbricated scales of a reddish-brown. Its form is 

 usually that of a little cone, more or less pointed ; when in the 

 axil of a leaf it is always slightly compressed. The wood-bud, 

 which is also called at Montreuil leii de pousse (pushing-eye), comes 

 <ni all parts of the Peach-tree, upon the young as well as upon the 

 older wood ; and pruning can make it push from very old wood. 



9. Fruit-bud (Figs. 1,6; 2, c; 8, d; I, 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 single bud is in general a wood-bud, from which a 

 shout proceeds. We however see flower-buds by themselves: 

 such are those marked b, 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 nourishment 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 instances of this, and farther on I 

 shall have to refer to them, 



12. Double buds generally consist of a wood-bud, and a flower- 

 bud. Fig. '~! shows this kind of buds ; a, wood-buds ; c, ilower- 

 lunls. 



1 3. In the triple buds, such as are seen at d, fig. 3, two 

 are llower-buds, the other a wood-bud. There are also triple 

 buds, which consist of three wood-buds. Put this sort does not 

 show itself except on the shoots of young Peach trees, or on 

 those that are very vigorous. It is always the middle eye that is 

 the strongest ; sometimes those at each side die off. I shall 

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



I 1. 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 absent. The four 

 prominent ones are all flower-buds; but the wood-bud that 

 develops a little later has the same functions as the ceil de pousse, 

 or growing-point (11); and from its presence these ought to be 

 called quintuple. They are rare, and always at the end of a 

 little branch or spur( Fig. t ). They are sometimes more numerous, 

 and disposed in the same manner with a growiug-poinj in the 



