A BIT OF HISTORY 17 



The buds upon the old stem from 1 to 12 still remained 

 dormant. 



Some of the spurs on the 1893 growth 12 to D developed 

 fruit-buds for bearing in 1896. 



Some of the buds on the 1894 growth D to E remained 

 dormant, but others developed into small fruit-spurs. One of 

 these buds, near the top of the 1894 growth, threw out a long 

 shoot, starting from G; and the bud at 26 also endeavored to 

 make a long branch, but failed. 

 I6h. 1896. Main shoot grew from 28 to the end. 



The side bud below 4 (where the fruit was borne the year 

 before) barely lived, not elongating, as seen above 3. This 

 branch of the spur is becoming weak, and will never bear 

 again. The side bud of 5, however, made a fairly good spur, 

 and developed a fruit -bud at its end, as seen at 6. 



The side bud of 10 grew somewhat, making the very short 

 spur (11). This branchlet is also getting weak. The bud of 

 8, however, developed a strong spur at 9. Both 11 and 9 bear 

 fruit -buds, but that on 11 is probably too weak ever to bear 

 fruit again. In fact, the entire spurs, from 1 to 6 and 1 to 9, 

 are too weak to be of much account for fruit -bearing. 



This year several of the spurs along the 1893 growth 12 to 

 D bore flowers. Flowers were borne from two buds on the 

 first one (at 13 and 14), but none of the flowers "set." One 

 of the little apples that died last June still clings to the spur, 

 at 14. A side bud, 15, formed to continue the spur in 1897. 

 Flowers were borne at 16, 20, 21 and 23, but no apples de- 

 veloped. Upon 16 and 20 the flowers died soon after they 

 opened, as may be seen by the remains. Upon 23, one of 

 the flowers set an apple, but the apple soon died. The spurs 

 17 and 18 are so weak that they never have made fruit -buds, 

 and they are now nearly dead. The spurs 19 and 22 seem to 

 have behaved differently. Like the others, they grew in 1894, and 

 would have made terminal fruit-buds in 1895, and borne fruit in 

 1896; but the terminal buds were broken off in the fall or winter 

 of 1894, so that two side buds developed in 1895, and each of 

 these developed a fruit-bud at its end in 1896 in the spur 19, 

 but only one of them developed such a bud in 22. Upon these 

 spurs, therefore, the bearing year has been changed. 



