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POMOLOGY 



short spur-like growths are frequently found on the older 

 branches or trunk of the peach tree. These spurs arise from 

 latent or adventitious buds, frequently at the place where a 

 shoot or branch has died or been removed. These spurs are 

 often fruitful and may perish after one year's growth or may 

 continue a short unbranched growth from a terminal leaf -bud 



Fig. 10.— a vig- 

 orous fruit- 

 spur of the 

 pear. 



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for two, three, or 

 more years, but 

 usually they are 

 not long-lived. 



The peach fur- 

 ther differs from 

 the apple and pear 

 in the number of buds that may stand at a 

 node. Any of the following conditions may 

 be found at a node on the one-year wood of 

 the peach, and sometimes all of them on a 

 single shoot: 



1. A single leaf -bud. 



2. An axillary fruit-bud. 



3. A leaf-bud and fruit-bud in the axil of a 



single leaf. 



4. Two fruit-buds with a leaf -bud between 



them or to one side of them in the 

 axil of a single leaf, or with a leaf 



Fig. 11.— Fruit- 

 ing habit of 

 the peach. 



