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The Principles of Fruit-growing 



twig is bent the tree's inclined." ' 'Pruning for fruit" and 

 "pruning for wood" are refinements of the art that find 

 little place in the usual commercial plantation. 



The bearing wood. 



Pruners should always under- 

 stand how the fruit-bearing wood is 

 borne. In the cane-fruits (raspberry, 

 blackberry, dewberry), the fruit is 

 borne on canes that grew the previ- 



FIG. 73. Terminal fruit-bud forming on an 

 apple shoot. 



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FIG. 74. Peach - buds 

 forming in the axil of a 

 single leaf. The central one 

 is a leaf-bud. 



ous year; and when this fruit is being borne, other canes 

 are growing from the crown of the plant to bear the 

 fruit the succeeding year : therefore, the fruiting canes are 

 removed when the fruit is off, and only a limited number 

 of canes is allowed to grow for the next year's crop. Goose- 

 berries and currants also bear on canes, but these canes 

 may not bear until the second year and they continue to 

 bear profitably for two or three years. Grapes produce 



