80 



PRINCirLES AND PRACTICE OF PRUNING 



In Iiing-cane systems, hori 

 or (HaKonal training', as tlie 



FIG. 59 



QUINCE METHOD OF FRUITING 

 a, b, c, positions where fruits 

 were borne in previous years. 

 iV, Last year's mummied fruit. 

 Notice that the fruits are borne 

 terminally and that new twigs 

 {a, b) appear from lateral buds 

 close to the points where the 

 fruits were produced the previous 

 year. 



anrl grape, notwithstanding 

 tinguislied in autumn in tlie 



zontal training is preferable to upright 

 lower buds of the cane are better 

 nourished in the horizontal systems. 

 The observations and conclusions 

 herein indicated, being based on one 

 crop, are not to be regarded as c n- 

 c]usi\e, but rather as a preliminary 

 report. 



75. The quince Fis;-. 58. — 

 Last season tlie quince de- 

 \-eloped resting' buds wliich all 

 looked alike. This spring the 

 buds that grow will develop 

 leafy shoots, mostly short. 

 Some of these shoots in favored 

 positions will produce terminal 

 Idossoms. Hence the shoots of 

 the quince, at least in the fruit- 

 bearing parts of the plant, are 

 irregular because the direction 

 of growth is changed wherever 

 a fruit is borne. This method 

 of blossoin bearing is called 

 coterminal, because the flowers 

 are at the tips of axial shoots 

 of this season. 



Flowers are unquestionably formed 

 the season previous to their expan- 

 sion in quince, raspberry, blacklierry 



the fact that no flower buds can be dis- 



se plants. — IE. S. Goff.* 



■ Wisconsin Annual Report 1901. 



