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FRUIT AND ITS CULTIVATION. 



Mode of Bearing. The Pear, like the Apple, bears its 

 fruit on naturally-formed spurs on the older wood; also 



Fig. 55. 

 PEAR SHOOTS. 



The left-hand shoot is 

 furnished with fruit buds, 

 that on the right with 

 wood buds only. 



on those artificially created at the base of the previous 

 year's shoots as the result of judicious summer and winter 



