THINNING THE FRUIT OF SPRAYED TREES. 



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By roforring to the above tal)le it will be seen that only those rows 

 which were sprayed in the spring- of 1895 were thinned, and that a 

 portion of these required but little thinning. The reasons for this lie 

 in the severe action of the disease upon the unsprayed rows and those 

 sprayed with weak or unsatisfactory sprays, in which cases the fruit 

 fell from disease. The table shows the weight of thinned peaches per 

 tree, the totjil weight of peaches thinned from the row, the number 

 of peaches contained in 25 pounds, the average number of peaches per 

 pound, and the total number of peaches thinned from the row. 



In the tal)le which follows the pounds have 1)een reduced to show 

 the num])er of peaches, the reduction being made according to the 

 method already described. Comparison of the total number of peaches 

 thinned from the separate rows, as given in the two tables, will show 

 slight variations in the units column in several cases. These varia- 

 tions arise from iie gain or loss in fractions resulting from the use 

 of the difi'erent methods which it was necessary to employ in ol)tain- 

 ino" the titrures shown in the two tables. 



Table 2A.— Number of peaches thinned from the sprayed Lovell peach trees in the experi- 

 ment block of the Bio Bonito orchard in the spring of 1895. (a) 



a For plat ol orchard see p. 69; for sprays applied see p. 73. 



