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spur system, such as is illustrated in Fig. 8. In Fig. 7 is 

 seen the beginning of the spur systems of the Rome. 



What may be termed a typical compound spur for many 

 apple varieties is shown in Fig. 8. Such a 

 spur may continue bearing fruit from its 

 several units for manj^ years. 



29. Fruiting of the pear. — This fruit is 

 closely related to the apple botanically and 

 it forms its fruit-buds in much the same 

 positions. The fruit-bud is usually termi- 

 nal on a spur, although terminal ones on 

 long shoots or even water-sprouts are fairly _ T 

 common. Fig. 9 shows a shoot of pear 

 which has produced a terminal fruit-bud 

 and three axillary ones, while in Fig. 10 is 

 seen a vigorous fruit-spur on which three 

 terminal fruit-buds appear and also one 

 axillary. 



30. Fruiting of the peach. — The peach 

 differs from the apple and pear because 

 fruit-buds occur freely on the vigorous, 

 often much branched, one-year-old wood, 

 which also produces the vegetative exten- 

 sion of the tree. It will be remembered 

 that the one-year-old temiinal shoots of 

 the apple yield a veiy small portion of the 

 fruit-buds only and very frequently none. 

 The lateral shoots on the one-year-old wood 

 of the peach may be rather short (less than ^'^ o _ a -'ll 

 one to three inches long) and because of fruit-bud forma- 

 their length may be termed spurs. Such tion in the pear, 

 spurs are frequently very fruitful, and the 



fruit-buds produced on them may be more hardy than those 

 on the more rampant growth of other branches or trees. Also 



