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trained to single stems, all sides shoots being removed and the 

 others were trained to three stems. The accompanying diagram, 

 Plate VI, shows the arrangement of the plants. 



The side benches in which these plants were grown are thirty- 

 four inches wide, inside measurement. The plants were set in 

 two rows one six inches from the back side of the bench and one 

 six inches from the front side, the plants in the front row alter- 

 nating with those in the back row. . The single-stem plants stood 

 a foot and a half apart in the row and the three-stem plants 

 twice that distance. This gave to each single-stem plant two and 

 one-eighth square feet of bench room and to each three-stem 

 plant four and one-fourth square feet. 



Of the fifty-one plants not in pots, thirty-three were trained 

 to single stem and eighteen were trained to three stems. At the 

 time they were transplanted to the bench, the thirty-three plants 

 for single stem training averaged 3.B5 inches high and the eigh- 

 teen plants for three stem training averaged 2.57 inches high. 

 Thus it appears that when they were benched the single-stem 

 plants averaged .78 of an inch higher than the three-stem plants. 

 A month later, October 28th, they were still in the lead, having 

 an average height of 12.58 inches as compared with 11.25 inches 

 for the three-stem plants. The length of time from seed planting 

 till ihe first fruit ripened, the average weight per fruit, and the 

 yield in ounces per square foot of bench room, are all summar- 

 ized in the following table: 



Table I — Plants xot ix Pots. Time of Ripexixg First Fruits, Average 

 Weight teii Frcit, and Yield pkr Squark Foot of Bench. 



TRAINING. -S -§2- '^ ^^ 



Siii};lc stfin 

 Three stem 



5 = 3 



12.79 

 11.52 



* Quite a number of fruits, which were included in the total yield, were very small 

 and ihey reduce the average weight per fruit to the amount shown in this and following 

 tables. 



