Buds 79 



Figure 18 shows the fruiting wood of the Silver Prune, 

 and is a fair illustration of the fruiting habit of the 

 Domestica plums (commonly called prunes). An exami- 

 nation of the tip will show that the terminal bud is not 

 a true terminal bud, but an axillary bud. The fourth 

 spur from the top bears a single bad, which might be taken 

 for a terminal fruit-bud, but it, too, is an axillary bud, as 

 is shown by the leaf-scar below it. The Japanese plums, 

 locally represented by such varieties as the Burbank, 

 Abundance, Satsuma (Blood), and the Red June, resemble 

 the apricot more in their manner of bearing fruit. The 

 fruit-buds are still axillary, and like the apricot are found 

 on both spurs and stronger-growing new wood, commonly 

 appearing in the latter case, one on either side of a branch- 

 bud. With some of the plums it is quite impossible 

 to distinguish the dormant fruit-bud from the branch- 

 bud, while with others they are easily identified. As 

 with the other fruits, rampant growth seems to be adverse 

 to the development of fruit-buds. 



