212 GROWTH OF TREES AND FORMING OF FRUIT BUDS 



Other apple varieties as Wealthy, Jonathan, and Olden- 

 burg, and pear varieties as Bartlett and Winter Nelis, at least 

 in New York, Maryland, and Oregon, do produce a large 

 amount of fruit each 3^ear from terminal and 

 axillary or lateral buds on one-year wood, par- 

 ticularly while the trees are young or are es- 

 pecially vigorous. Under such conditions fair 

 annual crops are produced. 



Some apple varieties, as Ben Davis, Gano, 

 Rome, Winter Banana, Yellow Transparent, 

 and Golden Delicious bear much of their first 

 few crops on terminal buds of the shoots unless, 

 through incorrect pruning, these buds are re- 

 moved by '^heading in^' the terminal growth. 



The fruit spurs of pears very closely re- 

 semble those of apples in growth and bearing 

 habit. 



Peach and Apricot. The peach and apricot 

 produce lateral fruit buds on the new shoots and 

 to some extent on short growths, which are 

 sometimes called spurs: In the peach most of 

 the crop is borne on so-called ''one-year growth." 

 It will be recalled that with apples much of the 

 74. Peach fruit is borne on spurs. Of course, as pointed 

 showing out previously, the wood of apple spurs, upon 

 which fruit buds are borne, is also only one 

 year old. On the vigorous shoots of peacK trees, 



Fig. 



shoot 



triple bud at A. 

 Other buds 



shown are side , , mo i , i 



views so only '^^^^^ Duds are generally formed at nearly every 



one of the buds node. See Fig. 74. The two outside buds which 



is s h o w n at usually are well rounded and plump in appear- 



each node. ance are fruit buds, and the center, rather 



pointed bud, as a rule, is a leaf bud. Each 



bud is formed in the axil of a leaf, so that three leaves appear 



to be formed at each node. As a matter of fact a close study 



of the true condition will show that the two-fruit bud leaves 



are really borne on very short branches in the axil of the main 



