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period of time it would require to bring other buds to the stage 
of development reached by those killed by frost. This single con- 
sideration appears sufficient to account for the apparent increase . 
in earliness in Haverland under the cover. 
In addition it must be remembered that the foliage in the open 
was much injured by frost while that under the cover was entirely 
free from such injury. 
Similarly, all of the earlier buds of Wilson in the check plat 
were killed but only five-twelfths of them, by estimate, in the 
shaded plat. In the case of Jessie, ten-twelfths of the early buds 
under the cover are estimated to have been killed and therewith 
is found an increase of only one day in apparent earliness. 
It is to be concluded, then, that the earlier ripening of shaded 
plants at Shortsville is not due to a hastening of the physiological 
processes of development but merely to the utterly extraneou: 
circumstance that the early shaded buds were protected from 
injury by frost while those in the open were not. 
At Penn Yan, under the thicker cover, the seasons of some 
. varieties were unaffected while those of others were retarded from 
one to three days. None was advanced. 
EFFECT OF SHADING ON THE SIZE OF BERRY. 
With the thicker cloth used at Penn Yan there was no differ- 
ence in size between the shaded and the unshaded berries. With 
the thinner cloth used at Geneva, shading uniformly increased 
the size of the berry, though in very different proportions in 
different varieties and at different periods of the ripening season. 
These facts are brought out in Table VII, which shows the number 
of berries in carefully measured quarts of different lots from the 
shaded and the check plats. Thirteen quarts from each plat were 
examined. The total number of unshaded berries was 1452 but 
of shaded ones 1102 or only three-fourths as many. In every 
case it required more unshaded than shaded berries to make a 
quart. But the smaller the berries the more they settle togeth«: 
in the basket and the greater the actual quantity the grower has to 
deliver for a quart and the less he realizes from a given weight of 
fruit. Also, the smaller the berry the longer it takes to pick a 
quart. At the same time the basket of large berries with its 
actually smaller content, brings much the larger price in the 
