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PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING 



In long-cane systems, horizontal training is preferable to upright 

 or diagonal training, as the lower buds of the cane are better 



nourished in the horizontal systems. 

 The observations and conclusions 

 herein indicated, being based on one 

 crop, are not to be regarded as con- 

 clusive, but rather as a preliminary 

 report. 



75. The quince Fig. 58.- 

 Last season the quince de- 

 veloped resting buds which all 

 looked alike. This spring the 

 buds that grow will develop 

 leafy shoots, mostly short . 

 Some of these shoots in favored 

 positions will produce terminal 

 blossoms. Hence the shoots of 

 the quince, at least in the fruit- 

 bearing parts of the plant, are 

 irregular because the direction 

 of growth is changed wherever 

 a fruit is borne. This method 

 of blossom bearing is called 

 coter.minal, because the flowers 

 are at the tips of axial shoots 

 of this season. 



" Flowers are unquestionably formed 

 the season previous to their expan- 

 sion in quince, raspberry, blackberry 

 and grape, notwithstanding the fact that no flower buds can be dis- 

 tinguished in autumn in these plants. [E. S. Goff.* 



FIG. 59 



QUINCE METHOD OF FRUITING 

 a, b, c, positions where fruits 

 were borne in previous years. 

 d, Last year's mummied fruit. 

 Notice that the fruits are borne 

 terminally and that new twigs 

 (a, b) appear from lateral buds 

 close to the points where the 

 fruits were produced the previous 

 year. 



* Wisconsin Annual Report 1901. 



