THE BUDS OF FRUIT-TREES 33 



They also are bonie singly or in clusters on short spurs on the 

 older growth, and such spurs may also be produced on the 

 new growth. 



The American species of plum are much the same as the 

 P. salicina in fruiting habits. 



33. Fruiting of the apricot. — The fruiting habit of the 

 apricot is practicallj^ the same as that of the peach. The fruit- 

 buds are boilie singly, or in pairs on the new growth with a 

 leaf-bud between them, or on short spurs on the older growth. 

 There is no true terminal bud, but what appears so is a true 

 lateral bud and it continues the growth of the branch. The 

 cluster of fruit-buds on the new growth is bome in the 

 axil of a single leaf instead, as may occur at times with the 

 peach, each bud in the axil of a leaf. Spurs are formed more 

 frequently with the apricot than with the peach. 



34. Fruiting of the quince. — This fruit differs from the 

 apple in the behavior of its over-wintering fruit-buds, in 

 the fact that the terminal bud which contains the flower 

 makes a short leafy growth of one to several inches and the 

 simple (or single) flower is then unfolded. The fruit-buds are 

 usually produced on short shoots (spurs) which become 

 branched somewhat after the mamier of an apple spur. 

 Axillaiy flower-buds may also occur abundantly on the 

 one-year-old terminal shoots. 



35. Fruiting of the grape. — This fruit also produces over- 

 wintering mixed buds l)onie laterally on canes of one year. 

 The flowers occur from lateral buds on the one-year wood. 

 " All species except Vitis Lahrusca average two inflorescences 

 to the cane but the last-named species, at least in some of its 

 subdivisions, may bear from three to six inflorescences, each 

 of course in the place of a tendril opposite a leaf." (Hedrick.) 



