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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. 
Fic. 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. 
