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bearing habits. Few fruit-buds are 

 found on the stronger-growing new 

 wood, the short spurs being the fruit- 

 bearing part of the tree. Like the 

 apricot, these spurs are new growths 

 bearing axillary fruit-buds, and with a 

 few exceptions a terminal branch-bud. 

 Figure 16 shows the type of fruiting 

 wood of the sweet cherry. Below 

 each side bud on spurs or stronger 

 new wood will be found a leaf-scar, 

 and as each spur is almost invariably 

 supplied with a terminal branch-bud, 

 observe the absence of crooks noted in 

 the spurs of the apple and the pear. 

 The figure also shows some strong 

 new growth, with rounded fruit-buds 

 near the base and the more pointed 

 branch-buds near the tip; these branch- 

 buds will later develop into fruit-spurs 

 like those on the older wood below. 

 The fruiting wood of the sour cherry 

 differs little from that of the sweet. 

 Some varieties, however, produce many 

 axillary fruit-buds on the long, new 

 growth. These develop into flowers 

 the following spring, and as these 

 spurs are annual in duration, they are 

 shed at the close of the season. No 

 lateral branch-buds being developed, this results in long, 

 naked branches, the only leaf or fruit-bearing wood being 



FIG. 16. Flower- 

 buds of Sweet 

 Cherry. 



