BUDS. IT 



4. Inferior. — ^Those on tlie lower side of horizontal 



branches (^, fig. 19). 



5. Stijndai'. — The small, barely visible buds found at the 



base of ordinary buds. 



6. Dormant or Latent. — ^These are scarcely apparent buds, 



generally towards the base of branches : They may 

 remain dormant for several years, and then, in some 

 species, be excited into growth by pruning close to 

 them. 

 Buds are again classed as leafhiids s^nd fruit hiids. 



7. Leaf Buds (i^, G^ H^ fig. 13) produce either leaves or 



branches ; they difier in form from fruit buds in 



being in most cases longer and more pointed in the 



same species. 

 These are again designated as — • 

 Single.^ when only one is produced at the same point (^, 



fig. 13). 

 Doidjle., when two are together (/, fig. 13). 

 Trijyl'e^ when in threes {C and «/, fig. 13). 



These double and triple buds are almost peculiar to the 

 stone fruits, and especially the peach, apricot, and 

 nectarine. 



The size, form, and prominence of leaf buds vary in a 

 striking degree in different varieties of the same species, 

 and these peculiarities are found to be of considerable 

 service in identifying and describing sorts. Thus, the 

 buds of one variety will be long, pointed and compressed, 

 or lying close to the shoot. Others will be large, oval 

 and prominent, or standing boldly out from the shoot. 

 Others will be small, full, and round. Thus, for instance, 

 the wood buds of the Gloiit Morceau are short and conical, 

 broad at the base, and taper suddenly to a very sharp 

 point inclined towards the shoot ; they have also very pro- 

 minent shoulders, that is, their base forms a prominent 

 projection on the shoot. The scales are also dark, with 



