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GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



old; C and .Z>, spurs. Fig. 19 is a fruit-spur from older 

 wood. The wood-bud in the centre of these groups of 

 buds on the spur enables them to increase in length every 



Fig. 16. 



Fig. 17. 



Fig. 15. 



Fig. 15, a slender fruit-branch of the peach ; all the buds except A and B, and 



the terminal one, are fruit-buds. Fig. 16, branch of the cherry ; A, two-year-old 



wood ; jB, one year; Cand Z>, fruit-spurs. Fig. 17, fruit-ppur of the cherry; the 



bud^l, in the center of the group, is a wood-bud. 



season. New buds are produced to replace those that 

 bear, and so the spurs continue fruitful for several years, 



