FBUIT-BEABING, CONGLODEB 



spring (or winter). It is two seasons old, as 

 shown by the ring at a, and by the different 

 buds upon the two portions. Upon the 

 older portions there are dormant buds ; there 

 are also curious angular bodies at e e e. 

 We understand what the dormant buds mean, 

 but the other bodies demand explanation. 

 They are not growing branches, because 

 they have no buds. The truncate ends are 

 scars. These cannot be leaf -scars, because 

 no buds are left above them (and we have 

 found that buds grow in the axils of leaves). 

 They must, then, be fruit-scars (or flower- 

 scars). In other words, normal scars with- 

 out the presence of buds indicate that a 

 flower was borne at that point. 



31. If we could have seen this twig 

 (below a) in the spring of last year, a 

 piece of it would have looked like Fig. 

 29. Three buds are borne together, the two 

 lateral ones (which are evidently fruit-buds) 

 being large and thick. If it were the habit 

 of the peach to bear three leaf-buds to- 

 gether, the method of branching of the ^^ig from 

 peach tree would tend to be by threes, but » peaou 

 we know that this is not the fact. We 

 know that these objects a a are not spurs (or 

 branches), because the leaf -scar is visible below 



