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clean, whether they have grown on the outside 

 limbs where the abundance of sun and light 

 has hastened their maturity, or whether they 

 have grown on an overloaded limb, and their 

 position happened to be where the sun seldom 

 shone, until after some of the fruit and much 

 of the foliage had disappeared. A closer study 

 and careful observation of this subject will do 

 much to increase the value of our orchard 

 products. 



How TO Pick. — ^Very much depends upon 

 the way fruit is picked, much more than many 

 growers seem to think. We often find pickers 

 bringing baskets of apples to the tables almost 

 covered with short twigs, which are growing 

 to the apple stems. The packers frequently ob- 

 ject to this because of the time and labor re- 

 quired to take them off, and if they are left on 

 it makes a bad looking package. While these 

 are both good reasons, there is still another of 

 greater importance, one that the grower should 

 consider. When we studied the Location and 

 Formation of Fruit Buds in Relation to Prun- 

 ing, we found that the fruit buds of the apple 

 were on the end of the twigs or spurs. So when 

 we see a bunch of apple blossoms they are on 

 the end of a branch, but when we go to gather 

 the apples they are very frequently at the base of 



