BKANCHES. 



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Fig. 17 IB a branch of the plum ; A, the two-year-olu 

 wood; B, one year old; (7andi>, spurs. Fig. 18 is a 



Fig. 14. 



Fig. 14, a slender fruit branch of ,jf|'^ 

 the peach ; all the buds except ^ 

 and B, and the terminal one, are 

 fruit buds. 



fruit spur from older wood. 

 The wood bud in the cen- 

 tre of these groups of 

 buds on the spur enables 

 them to increase in length 

 every season. E^ew buds 

 are produced to replace 

 those that bear, and so 

 the spurs continue fruit- 

 ful for several years, ac- 

 cording to the vigor of 



Fig. 16. 



Fig. 15. 



Fiff. 15, branch of the cherry ; A-, two- 

 year- old wood ; B, one year ; C and D, 

 fruit spurs. Fig. 16, fruit spur of the cherry ; 

 the bud ^, in the centre of the group, is a 

 wood bud. 



the tree, and the manner in which it is treated. 



