154 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



Other leaf buds & fruiting buds develop in their axillae for the following year. They're 

 arranged so that there is a fruiting bud next to a leaf bud or a fruiting bud between two 

 leaf buds or a leaf bud between two fruiting buds. The fruiting buds are the biggest & 

 bluntest of all. These three kinds of buds are quite difficult to tell apart during the winter; 

 there are types of cherry trees where all the buds are slightly pointed and others where all 

 the buds are rather blunt. As a result, they can be more or less identified only by 

 comparing them to one another. 



3°. The leaves of cherry trees are folded in half within the bud. They're situated 

 alternately along the branch. They're oblong in shape, almost an elongated oval, 

 terminating in a point at the ends. The underside is a lighter green than the upper and is 

 accented by a large midrib. Seven or eight smaller veins emerge on both sides of it that in 

 turn branch out into many very small ones. The upper side of the leaf is indented with 

 grooves corresponding to the veins underneath. The size, thickness, denticulation, shade 

 of green, &c. vary with the type of tree. At the end of the petiole, near where the leaf 

 opens up, there almost always are two small swellings shaped like red-tinged glands. 



4°. Flowers blossom on cherry trees at the end of March or the beginning of April. 

 They are hermaphroditic, suspended on fairly long stalks. Usually several emerge from 

 the same bud. They're composed of: 1°. a cup-shaped calyx divided from the top into five 

 sections or indentations hollowed spoonlike. When the flower has opened, they fall back 

 down on the cup or on the portion of the calyx that remains undivided. The calyx has a 

 hole at the bottom, & since it's penetrated there by the stalk, it sometimes remains in 

 place, dried up, until the fruit ripens. 2°. five thin, rounded petals, larger or smaller 



