BUDS 



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FIG. 44 SOUR 



CHERRY 



At a is the dividing 

 point between one- 

 y e a r and two-year 

 wood. A fruit spur is 

 also shown here. Simi- 

 lar spurs are seen at 

 b. Each of these bears 

 three or four blossom 

 buds and one branch 

 bud, the latter at the 

 tip. The spurs lower 

 down have only branch 

 buds at their tips. 

 Branch buds are also 

 seen on the one-year 

 wood. 



themselves, all have 

 vigorous "last season 



FIG. 45 -FOUR-YEAR SWEET 



CHERRY TWIG 



Letters indicate ends of annual 

 growths. The main twig is four years 

 old; the largest branch three. The 

 center bud in each cluster on the spurs 

 is usually a branch bud whose func- 

 tion is to extend the spur. 



blunter than the branch buds and 

 because there is nothing about 

 their position to distinguish them. 

 Plums, more especially those of 

 the Domestica class, though dif- 

 fering in minor respects among 

 axillary fruit buds sometimes on 

 s" twigs, sometimes on older wood. 



