36 LESSON'S WITJET PLANTS 



from a to 6 grew the last season, and the por- 

 tion below a two seasons ago. The upper portion 

 has simple buds, while the lower portion has 

 what appear to be elongated buds, but which are 

 really fruit-spurs (for we have found that when 

 buds elongate they become branches). Each of 

 these spurs, then, bore a cluster of leaves last 



Fig. 33. 

 Fruit-beaiinp: of the black currant. 



year, as if it had been an apple spur. Let the 

 pupil examine currant and gooseberry bushes (at 

 any time of the year), and he will readily con- 

 clude that they bear fruits usually on spurs, but 

 that these spurs generally bear only two or three 

 times. Examine the barberry. 



34. The two-year-old twig of a black currant 

 is drawn in Fig. 33. It was taken in spring, and 

 yet the remains of the old fruit-stems persist. 



