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EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI. 



First Test. 



Three-stem plants in pots, 102 and 1 to 18. 

 Three-stem plants not in pots, 50 to G7. 

 Single-stem plants in pots, GS to 108. 

 Single-stem plants not in pots, 103 and 19 to 49. 



Second Test. 



Three-stem plants in pots, 114, 115, 118, 110, 130, 131. 



Three-stem plants not in pots, 112, 113, IIG, 117, 128, 129, 132. 



Single-stem plants in pots, lOG, 107, 110, 111, 122, 123, 12G, 127. 



Single-stem plants not in pots, 104, 105, 108, 109, 120, 121, 124, 

 125, 133. 



The number shows the location of the plant on the bench- 

 Plants 18 and 133 had more room than others of their class and 

 Plant G7 had less. Plants 43 and 98 were accidentally injured. 

 All these were excluded from the experiment. 



From this table it appears that the single-stem plants kept the 

 lead from the beginning, ripened their first fruit a few days 

 earlier, gave somewhat greater yield per square foot of bench 

 area occupied by them and produced a little larger fruit on the 

 average than did the plants trained to three stems. 



Of the fifty-two plants in pots, thirty four were trained to 

 single stems and eighteen to three stems. When they were put 

 on the benches, the plants selected for single-stem training 

 averaged 2.45 inches high and those selected for three-stem 

 training averaged 3.33 inches, so the plants which were designed 

 for three-stem training averaged .88 of an inch higher than the 

 single-stem plants. A month later, October 28, the three-stem 

 plants were still in the lead, having an average height of 9.75 

 inches, which was 1.44 inches more than the average of the 

 single-stem plants. The time of ripening the first fruits, the 

 average weight per fruit, and the yield are shown in the follow- 

 ing table: 



