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"Whole Root" vs. "Piece Root" Apple Teees. 



la April, 1897, the Station received from the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, Division of Pomology, twenty va- 

 rieties of Hungarian apples. There were three trees of each 

 kind. One had been grafted on a whole root, one on the 

 upper half of a root, and one on the lower half of a root. The 

 trees were all rather undersized yearlings. They were care- 

 fully inspected as planted, but no constant difference could 

 be noted in favor of either method of grafting. If anything, 

 the half root trees had developed a better root system than 

 the whole root trees, but the tops averaged about alike. 

 Notwithstanding the lateness of the season most of the trees 

 lived, but they made very little growth during the first year. 

 The past summer they have mostly made a very good growth. 

 The following measurements, the heights in feet and tenths, 

 the caliper near the ground in inches and tenths, were made 

 on October 31, 1898: 



* Tree accidentally injured in cultivation. 



