264 TREATISE ON FRUIT TREES. 



are of the same kind, color, orientation, & consistency as those on the shoots. The outer 

 bark is shed every year & is replaced by a new one. 



The buds of the shoots are big, long, terminate in a very sharp point, and make a 

 very acute angle with the branch. Sometimes they're double & even triple, alternate, and 

 quite far apart from each other except near the end of the shoot where they're closer 

 together. 



Fruiting buds & branches emerge from the insertion point & from the first buds 

 on a pruned shoot. These branches are very short, often not even as much as six lignes. 

 They have fruit buds along their whole length, especially at the ends. These buds are 

 elongated, very pointed, and the same shape as the vegetative buds, but they're two or 

 three times smaller. 



So currant bushes, like cherry trees, have four layers of bark & three kinds of 

 buds: for branches, for leaves, & for fruit. But on the currant bush the biggest ones are the 

 branch buds, & the smallest are the fruit buds. 



The flowers form racemes & are alternate on a common peduncle, stalk, or stem. 

 They're attached by very slender filaments or pedicels that emerge from the axillae of 

 sorts of scales, sheaths, or very small long pointed leaves. Each flower consists of 1°. a 

 calyx in one piece shaped like a very wide-open cup about half a ligne deep. It's divided 

 almost from the bottom into five green sections about one ligne long and nearly two 

 lignes wide, with light yellow margins. They're reflexed outward and rolled onto the cup. 

 2°. five petals attached to the inside edges of the calyx between its sections. They're so 

 tiny that they're hardly visible. 3°. five very short stamens attached to the inside walls of 

 the calyx between the petals. 4°. a pistil with a style divided at its end into two recurved 

 branches. It rests on an ovary 



