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Here, then, tlie cuttings were both much earlier and more pro- 

 ductive than the seedlings. This is opposed to most of our earlier 

 results. 



May third, another batch of cuttings was taken from the old 

 plant A. These were three or four inches long and were made 

 from the tips of axillary shoots which had reached a foot or more 

 in length. Seedlings were started from the same plant at the 

 same time, and the two lots were placed side by side in the field. 

 The results are like those above, only less pmnounced: 



Table XIV. — Seedlings v. Cuttings, to Frost. 



Now, at the same time that this last lot was started. May thiixi, 

 a dozen good cuttings were taken from the plants B, which were 

 themselves cuttings. These cuttings of cuttings were given the 

 same treatment as the cuttings specified in the above table, and 

 were set. alongside them in the field. They gave their firet pick- 

 ing August twenty-second, the same date as the one-generation 

 cuttings, but they gave over twice the yield of either cuttings 

 or seedlings — 5.4 pounds per plant, which is a fair yield for plants 

 started in May. This, in general, tallies with our experience 

 last year. We can not account for it. Another strange thing about 



