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under the modern method the fruit is ])roduced mostly on spurs, and at 

 the base of the fruit stalks of this year are the fruit buds from which 

 next year's crop is obtained. When the fruit is picked from the early- 

 ripening varieties they are thus enabled, before the end of the growing 



Plate 76. — Five Crown Lateral, showing development of fruit buds. 



period, to strengthen the fruit buds for next year and to generally 

 recuperate. With the late-ripening sorts, which bear heavy crops, how- 

 ever, the case is different, as tliey are compelled to support their fruit 



