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spur (/) would probably soon have died, as also would 

 spur s. 



The side shoot g grew to h in 1919 and made a flower- 

 bud. In 1920 this bud gave blossoms and one fruit resulted ; 

 the scar is prominent and there is an enlargement of the 

 tissue indicating that the fruit probably attained good size; 

 in 1920 also, two side spurs were formed each with weak 

 blossom-buds, also a terminal shoot (beyond h) with leaf- 

 bud at the end. 



The other shoots have similar histories: the long shoot 

 i bore a fruit-bud at k in 1919 and a fruit in 1920 ; in 1920 it 

 also made three lateral shoots and a terminal shoot, with 

 flower-buds terminating two of them. Shoot / bore flowers 

 at its point in 1920 but did not carry the fruit to maturity ; 

 it also made two side growths and one terminal growth, all 

 terminated by flower-buds, to be blown in 1921. The shoot 

 w is a short spur that made a flower-bud in 1919 and in 1920 

 carried three little fruits for a time and made a flower-bud 

 in 1920. Shoot n remained very short in 1919, making a 

 terminal leaf-bud; in 1920 it grew two inches and made a 

 weak flower-bud. 



If shoot No. 3 grew in 1918, then No. 4 grew in 1917 ; 

 but the branch is severed and I cannot trace the record 

 farther. We could trace the family history many years if 

 we had the unpruned tree before us. 



Here, then, in my yard-long manuscript are forty bud- 

 records on the main axis, counting the terminals on No. 2 

 and No. 3. I can find record of 144 buds on the side shoots. 

 This makes a grand total of 184 buds. There is a total 

 growth in length of 108 inches, or 9 feet. Each of the buds 

 that has already "grown" has produced an average of prob- 

 ably ten leaves, or say 340 leaves in total. If there were an 



