Practical Orcharding On Rough Lands. 23 1 



of one year's growth. For this reason the 

 peach grower cannot even HOPE to have a crop 

 of fruit unless his trees have made some switch 

 growth the previous season. When the habits 

 of growth of the apple and peach are com- 

 pared, we find that if it were possible to go 

 over an apple tree and remove all the terminal 

 buds, it could not bear any fruit that season. 

 While with the peach, we might not only re- 

 move the terminal bud, but a portion of the 

 wood growth could also be cu, away. It would 

 not only then be possible for the peach tree to 

 produce a full crop, but the shortening of the 

 previous year's growth (and probably the re- 

 moval of a portion of the fruit buds in the 

 operation) may serve as thinning, and thereby 

 improve the size and quality of the fruits. 

 This comparison helps us to realize the great 

 difference in the habit of growth, or the loca- 

 tion of the fruit buds on these two of our most 

 common fruit trees. Seeing that such a dififer- 

 ence as this exists, how foolish for us to go into 

 the orchard and apply the same methods of 

 pruning to both the apple and peach. The 

 terminal buds we see on our quince trees in 

 spring are not fruit buds. They must burst 

 and make a growth, on the ends of which the 

 flowers and afterwards the fruit appears. In 



