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Table VIII. — Greening. Fruit Thinned to Four Inches, Defective 

 AND Inferior Specimens Removed. 



* Not recorded. 

 ** The drops were relatively greater where no thinning had been done, but the 

 exact yield of culls and drops was not recorded. 



THIRD METHOD. 



Record for i8p6. — The third method, in which all inferior speci- 

 mens were removed and all others thinned to not less than six 

 inches apart, was tried with Hubbardston (trees 15, 16) and with 

 Greening (trees 19, 19^). One tree of each kind was thinne(^ 

 while a corresponding tree was left unthinned for comparison 

 The Hubbardston was under experiment from 1896 to 1899 and 

 the Greening from 1897 to 1899. In 1896 25 per ct. less of No. 

 I and No. 2 fruit combined was borne by the thinned than by the 

 unthinned tree, but about 17 per ct. more of it graded No. i. 



