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the winter buds of the apple are packed with miniature 

 leaves and sometimes with flowers as well. The shoot com- 

 ing out of the bud may remain very short, constituting a 

 "spur," or grow with long internodes, making a slender twig. 

 Fig. 15 shows a branch with new elongated growth, b to a, 

 and a shoot or spur (c) arising from a bud of the previous 

 year. Note the "ring," or division beyond b, marking the 

 turn of the year. 



It will be noted in Fig. 14 that the buds are of two 

 shapes and sizes, such as a, a, a, representing one kind and 

 b, b, the other kind. The former, small and pointed, are 

 leaf-buds ; from them will arise a shoot bearing only leaves. 

 The latter, b, large and rounded and usually more fuzzy, 

 are flower-buds (fruit-buds) : from them will arise a short 

 shoot bearing leaves and a cluster of flowers ; and we hope 

 that at least one of the flowers will set fruit. 



We are now ready to resume our lesson with the branch 

 before us. We have identified the slender terminal part, 

 No. 1, as the growth of 1920. We are now to account for 

 all the remaining buds and branchlets. 



If No. 1 grew in 1920, then the main shoot of No. 2 

 grew in 1919, from the point o o. It is also one foot long. 

 Near its base are four small buds that remained dormant in 

 1920. There are nine branches {d) of various lengths be- 

 sides the terminal shoot No. 1, all of which grew in 1920, 

 for they are naturally a year younger than the main axis 

 from which they arise ; these branches are the same age as 

 No. 1, with buds that would have produced shoots in 1921. 

 But the terminal buds of eight of these lateral shoots (all 

 but the lowermost) bear blossom-buds at the end; note 

 their size and shape. Had not the branch been cut, these 

 buds would have bloomed in 1921 ; the eight of them 



