78 Fruit-Growing in Arid Regions 



on the new growth at the end. (See Fig. 17.) With the 

 peach and the apricot the fruit-bud is quite readily dis- 

 tinguishable from 

 the branch-bud, 

 but with the 

 cherry the fruit- 

 bud can hardly 

 be identified from 

 external appear- 

 ances. After the 

 buds begin to 

 swell in the 

 spring, the fruit- 

 buds have a more 

 rounded or blunt 

 appearance; 

 compare the f ruit- 

 buds near the 

 base of the new 

 growth in the 

 figure with the 

 b r a n c h-b u d s 

 nearer the tip. 

 The plums 



FIG. 17. -Flower- Val>V Somewhat 



buds of Sour in their manner 



Cherry.. of f ruit _ b earing, 



but all are alike in that the fruit- FIG. is. Flower-buds 

 buds are axillary. With some, the 

 development of fruit-buds on the stronger-growing new 

 wood is quite common, while with others it is rare. 



