Buds 73 



The foregoing lists are very incomplete, but they serve 

 to show that these methods of fruit-bearing are not un- 

 common with the apple, and that the pear may also 

 produce fruit-buds in the axils of leaves on the current 

 season's growth. Further observations will no doubt 

 change some of these determinations, and will certainly 

 add much to the list. It is well known that varieties vary 

 in their characteristics in different localities, a few miles 

 often being sufficient to show marked changes. These 

 notes were made in Grand Junction, Colorado, so that ob- 

 servers in other localities need not be surprised if their 

 observations do not agree with these in all respects. 



While the capacity of a variety to produce annual 

 crops is undoubtedly influenced by several factors, the 

 table is of interest in indicating that the characteristic 

 of fruit-bearing on one-year-old spurs is conducive to the 

 production of annual crops. This is as might be ex- 

 pected; and by examining older fruit-spurs we find that, 

 when a fruit-bud has been produced, growth is stopped, 

 and a lateral bud has developed into a branch and con- 

 tinued the growth of the spur. This lateral is not or- 

 dinarily terminated by a fruit-bud that year, for the 

 supposed reason that the energies of the spur have been 

 depleted in the production of flowers, and perhaps fruit 

 as well, on the older part. We learn from this that fruit- 

 spurs, as a rule, may bear fruit only every other year, 

 but in reality such regularity is far from being common. 



Bud-bearing on Stone-fruits 



When we undertook to write on the subject of buds, 

 it was found that our observations did not agree in many 



