TEE FBUIT-SPUB 



25 



The pupil should also explore the wood-pile, where he may now 

 find much to interest him. 



VI. THE FRUIT -SPUR 



24. We have found (Figs. 3, 4, 5) that there 

 are two kinds of buds, the leaf -buds, and the 

 fruit-buds (or flower-buds). Some of these fruit- 

 buds on the apple tree terminate short branches 



{eeg, Fig. 3), but 

 now and then one 

 is borne on the 

 end of the axial 

 shoot of the season 

 (c e, Figs. 4 and 

 5). The latter is 



Fig. 23. 

 The fruit-apur arid leaf-spur. 



the exception in apple trees. Fig. 23 is an 

 apple twig. Several dormant buds are seen on 

 the lower part. At a and 6 are short branches. 

 The branch h has made a small and pointed 



