BRANCHES. 



13 



Fig. IT is a branch of the plum ; J., the two-year-old 

 wood: B, one year old; tfand J9, spurs. Fig. 18 is a 



Fia. 14. 



-FV 14, a slender fruit branch of 

 the peach ; all the buds except A 

 and B, and the terminal one, are 

 fruit buds. 



fruit spur from older wood. 

 The wood bud in the cen- 

 tre of these groups of 

 buds on the spur enables 

 them to increase in length, 

 every season. New buds 

 are produced to replace 

 those that bear, and so 

 the spurs continue fruit- 

 ful for several years, ac- 

 cording to the vigor of 

 the tree, and the manner in which it is treated. 



Fio. 18. Fio. 16. 



Fig. 15, branch of the cherry ; A, two- 

 year-old wood ; B, one year ; C and D, 

 fruit spurs. Fig. 16, fruit spur of the cherry 

 the bud jj, in the centre of the group, is 

 wood bud. 



