Identifier: pruningbookmonog00bail (find matches)
Title: The pruning-book; a monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954
Subjects: Pruning
Publisher: New York Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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^ grew to their present size and thenstopped (see fli, Fig. 6). What are these buds of the tip shoot propos-ing to do in 1897! We can answer this questionby going back one year and seeing what the budson the lower (or older) part of the shoot did in1896, as we did in Figs. 5 and 6. Upon thatpart (below B) the buds seem to have increasedin size. Therefore, they must have grown lastyear. There were no leaves borne below thesebuds in 1896, but a cluster of leaves came out ofeach bud in the spring. As these leaves expandedand grew, the little bud grew on; that is, eachbud grew into a tiny branch, and when fall cameeach of these branches had a bud on its end tocontinue the growth in the year to come. Whatwe took to be simple buds at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, aretherefore little branches (compare Fig. 9).
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A two-year-old shoot from ayoung apple tree.Half size. 17. A three-year-oldshoot and fruit-spurs.Half size. 36 THE FRUIT-SPUR But the stmugest part of this twig has not yetbeen seen,—the branches are of different sizes,and three of them (7, 8, 9) have so far out-stripped the others that they seem to be of a dif-ferent kind. It should be noticed, too, that thevery lowermost bud (at 1) never grew at all, butremained perfectly dormant during the entireyear 1896. It will be seen, then, that the dor-mant bud and the smallest branches are on thelower part of the shoot, and the three strongbranches are at the very tip of the last j-earsgrowth. If, now, we picture the twig as it looked in thefall of 1895, we wdll see that it consisted of asingle shoot, terminating at B. It had a largeterminal bud (like those at 7, 8, 9, 10), andthis bud pushed on into a branch in 1896, andthree other buds near the tip did the samething. Some of these branches grew to be largerthan others because of more sun

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