230 Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 



buds. This subject has been touched upon 

 under the head of pruning to cause to bear 

 fruit as well as under the head of care and cul- 

 tivation. But when we consider the location 

 of fruit buds we may be surprised how little 

 we have really seen all these years while work- 

 ing among our trees. Let us look at some of 

 our fruit trees and vines and see where these 

 buds are found. On the apple we find the 

 fruit bud always a terminal bud, maybe on 

 wood that is one or more years old. They may 

 be located on a twig, or as we say, on a fruit 

 spur. This may be so short that we will hardly 

 recognize it as a twig. We should remember 

 that whenever a bud bursts and begins to grow, 

 be it ever so little, we call it a spur or twig. 

 Then if we expect our trees to bear fruit along 

 their branches after they attain age, how care- 

 ful we should be not to remove all those little 

 leafy shoots which we find throughout our 

 apple trees. It is upon these we should expect 

 to find our first fruit buds, as these growths 

 will be shaded by the outer and stronger 

 growing branches (or their life ^threatened), 

 therefore as their wood growth is checked the 

 fruit bud is formed. 



When looking for flower buds on the peach 

 we find them located on the SIDES of switches 



