FRUIT -BUDS OF PEACH 



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different from that of the apple, pear, plum, and 

 cherry. 



It must now be determined why the fruit -scars 

 an- single on the twig in Fig. 

 34, while the fruit -buds are in 

 pairs (with a leaf -bud between 

 them) in the first place (Figs. 

 36, 35). Fig. 37 shows a half- 

 grown peach which has arisen 

 from one of the buds. A flower 

 was produced from each bud, 

 but in the struggle for existence 

 one of them (and also the leaf- 

 bud) perished. The twig in 

 Fig. 34 has no buds upon the 

 bodies which bore the peaches; 

 thrrefore, these bodies are not 

 leaf -bearing branches (or spurs) , 

 and they do not bear again. We 

 have seen (Figs. 36, 35) that 

 these fruit -buds are formed on 

 the axial growth of the current 

 year, and bear the next year, 

 and not upon spurs. Very short 

 fruit-bearing growths often arise 

 from two or three -year -old 

 wood of the peach, but these are 

 really not spurs although they 

 look like spurs because they 

 bear but once. It is plain, 



