FRUIT GROWING 297 



of the year before, or the second, third, or fourth year 

 before as is the case with most of the tree fruits. Re- 

 member to examine your grape vines next year to see that 

 this is true. 



We readily see then how closely the questions of fruit 

 buds and pruning are related. 



The clusters of fruit that you will pick from your grape 

 vines next fall will be borne only on the young, new wood 

 formed during the spring and summer; and because of 

 this fact, the old wood should have been pruned away 

 last fall, save only a very few canes from which the new 

 ones might grow. This would cause the plant to devote 

 its entire strength and vigor to the development of the 

 new fruit-bearing wood as well as to that of the fruit 

 itself. 



The fruit of the blackberry and raspberry, like that of 

 the grape, is borne only on the new twigs, or wood, of the 

 same season's growth as the berries themselves ; and these 

 new twigs branch only from those canes which have grown 

 up from the ground the year before. This means that the 

 twigs from which you will gather berries next summer will 

 be found branching out from canes that came up from the 

 ground last summer, — and these twigs will not begin to 

 grow until spring has come. Therefore you should have 

 cut away all old wood that had borne fruit as soon as the 

 crop was gathered last summer so that the new canes could 

 have possession of the ground. 



Peaches are always borne on twigs of the 'previous season's 

 growth. It follows that pruning should have been done 

 last summer to induce the growth of new twigs from which 

 the next season's crop must come. 



Plums and cherries usually, but not always, are borne 

 on wood that is two years old, and fortunately these trees 

 get along well with very little pruning. 



