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BUDS 



the different classes of fruits, and it is important that one should 

 know their location and time of formation, for such information 

 is valuable in deciding how and when to cultivate and prune. 



Fig. 188. — Chestnut sprouts growing from stumps. 

 After Gifford Pinchot. 



Formation of Buds. — The buds of plants which have a rest 

 period are formed during one season, lie dormant during the rest 

 period, and open at the beginning of the next growing season. 

 Thus the buds of our fruit trees, which produced flowers and 

 leafy shoots this year, were formed last year. As the new shoots 

 develop each year, new buds are formed in the axils of the leaves 

 and at the apex of branches, and in these buds are the flowers 

 and leaves which appear the following year. 



