HOW GRAPES BEAR 



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In like way, the reader may trace the history 

 of any of the hickories (Fig. 49), butternut and 

 walnuts, in all of which the fruit -bearing is 

 also co -terminal. 



GRAPES AND BRAMBLES 



A bit of a grape cane, with a bud, is shown in 

 Fig. 50. In May, this bud has given rise to a 

 shoot like that in Fig. 51. As 

 the shoot grows, flower -clusters 

 arise. Two such clusters are 

 now well developed, and a third 

 is forming near the tip; and 

 the shoot will continue to grow 

 from the tip, a. This shoot, 

 in fact, is to become a cane, 

 growing several feet in length 

 before the close of the season; 

 but the flowers will not con- 

 tinue to form, for only two to 

 four clusters are borne, as a 

 rule, upon each cane, and these 

 are all near the base of the 

 cane. In the fall, the grapes 

 hang from the lower, or older, 

 joints (Fig. 52), the cane 

 continuing in the direction a; 5L The young grape 

 and from some or all of the 

 axillary buds on this cane, other flower -bearing 

 shoots may arise the following year. Therefore, 



