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The Principles of Fruit-growing 



twig is bent the tree's inclined." "Pruning for fruit" and 

 "pruning for wood" are refinements of the art that find 

 little place in the usual commercial plantation. 



The bearing wood. 



Pruners should always under- 

 stand how the fruit-bearing wood is 

 borne. In the cane-fruits (raspberry, 

 blackberry, dewberry), the fruit is 

 borne on canes that grew the previ- 



Fm. 73, Terminal fruit-bud foiming on an 

 apple shoot. 



Fig. 74. Peach -buds 

 forming in the axil of a 

 single leaf. The central one 

 is a leaf-bud. 



ous year; and when this fruit is being borne, other canes 

 are growing from the crown of the plant to bear the 

 fruit the succeeding year: therefore, the fruiting canes are 

 removed when the fruit is off, and only a limited number 

 of canes is allowed to grow for the next year's crop. Goose^ 

 berries and currants also bear on canes, but these canes 

 may not bear until the second year and they continue to 

 bear profitably for two or three years. Grapes produce 



