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TABLE III 

 YIELDS IN WOOD DWARF APPLE ORCHARD 



number of trees per acre for the different stocks, however, all 

 ing the smaller distances between trees for the dwarfs, then 

 Paradise, per acre unit, is most productive for this first ten ye 

 Doucin next, and French Crab last. So many exceptions co 

 rightly be made to such a calculation, however, that it is not wo 

 making. Those who have had to do with the experiment h 

 been surprised at the comparatively small yield of the trees 

 Paradise. Few, indeed, are the Paradise trees that have b 

 bent to the ground with a load of fruit as they are so o: 

 depicted. 



Time of Bearing. In considering age of bearing, it is 

 portant to keep in mind the age of the plants. Trees were bud 

 for these experimental orchards in the summer of 1902. 

 Wood orchard was set in the autumn of 1903 and the other 

 orchards a year later. 



In all three of the orchards, as the figures given show, the Pi 

 dise trees came into bearing soonest. In no one of the th 

 orchards, however, was there what could be called a commer 

 crop on any of the stocks until the tenth year after setting, \vh 

 if we take an average of the three orchards, the trees on Fre 

 Crab bore 66.5 pounds each; on Doucin, 63.65 pounds; and 

 Paradise, 52 pounds. The figures must be thus roughly combi 

 or else given in detail at a length of several pages of tabular mat 

 the showing in either case being much the same; namely, that 

 dwarfing stocks bring apples into commercial bearing somew 

 earlier than do crabs. 



