New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 



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In this case the three-stem plants on the average ripened their 

 first fruits a little earlier than the single-stem plants, but the sin- 

 gle-stem plants yielded at the rate of twenty-seven pounds more 

 fruit per hundred square feet of bench and their fruits averaged 

 slightly larger than those of the three-stem plants. 



Of the fourteen plants in pots, eight, averaging 5.91 inches in 

 height, were for single-stem training and six, averaging 5.92 

 inches high, were for three-stem training. Thus it appears that 

 the two lots of plants averaged practically the same in height 

 at this time. The following is a summary of their later records. 



Tablk IV. — Plants i.v 2^ ixcu Pots Plunged on thb Bench. Timk op 

 Itii'KNixc. FiitsT riiriTs. AVKRAGE Wkight peu Fkuit, and Yield pek 

 f?QUAEE Foot up HKNcri." 



TRAIN I XG. 



Btngle-stem.... 

 Sinj;li'-.st('tn 

 Thrc'i;->teiu . 



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ca 



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(17. S8) 



19.42 

 15.34 



•Some of the items do not agree with those which were published in Bulletin ISn, be-* 

 cause the tables have been corrected, an error in transcribing the record having been 

 discoverir'd. 



t tiee note. Table I. 



For some unknown reason one of the single-stem plants was 

 very late in ripening its first fruits and was very unproductive, 

 yielding but a few undersized fruits. By including the records 

 of this plant in the averages, as is done in the first line of the 

 table where the figures appear in small type and in parentheses, 

 it gives a wrong impression of the general character of this lot 

 of plants. Leaving this plant out, as is done in the second line of 

 the table, a more just comparison with the corresponding three- 

 stem plants may be made. It then appears that while the single- 

 stem plants ripened their first fruits somewhat later than did 

 the three-stem plants, and the fruit averaged slightly smaller, yet 

 they gave a greater yield, the increase being at the rate of 25^ 

 pounds per hundred square feet of the bench area which they 

 occupied. 



