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Table 1. Number and percent of total apple trees by age groups for each 

 state in New England. 



1 to 6 Years 7 to 11 Years 12 to 21 Years 



No. 



22+ Years 

 No. % 



Total 



53,370 22.0 



26,411 15.7 



12,848 8.0 



56,671 18.0 



2,654 11.4 



25,405 18.0 



100,857 42.0 



69,707 41.3 



73,890 45.8 



160,930 51.0 



16,058 68.7 



63,776 45.2 



240,790 

 168,662 

 161,208 

 315,252 



23,337 



141,055 



Massachusetts 1 

 while Rhode Island h 

 A comparison of the 

 total tree numbers s 

 New Hampshire lead w 

 percent, Connecticut 

 Island last with 15. 

 of their industry Ve 

 while Massachusetts 

 their neighbors. 



eads in the total number of trees in all age groups, 

 as the smallest number of trees in each age group, 

 percent of trees by age groups in relation to the 

 hows that for the 1 to 6 year age group Vermont and 

 ith 3 5.1 and 31.1 percent followed by Maine with 23.3 

 21.9 percent, Massachusetts 20.4 percent, with Rhode 

 2 percent. These data show that based on the size 

 rmont and New Hampshire have been planting more trees, 

 and Rhode Island have been planting fewer trees than 



Rhode Island and Massachusetts have a larger proportion of their 

 trees in the older age group with 68.7 and 51.0 percent in the 22 year 

 and older group. New Hampshire and Maine have 41.3 and 42.0 percent of 

 their trees in this age group. Connecticut and Vermont have 45.2 and 



45.8 percent of their trees in the old tree group. 



Table 2 shows the number and percent of apple trees in New England 

 by states and age groups. 



Maine has 22.9 percent of the total trees in New England with 21.3 

 percent of the trees under 7 years and 22.3 percent of the trees under 

 12 years. New Hampshire has 16.1 percent of the total trees, but it has 



19.9 percent of the trees under 7 years and 18.7 percent of the trees 

 under 12 years. Vermont with only 15.3 percent of the total trees has 

 21.4 percent under 7 years and 19.2 percent under 12 years. Massachusetts 

 has 30.1 percent of the total trees with 24.4 percent of the trees under 



7 years and 25.2 percent under 12 years. Rhode Island has only 2.2 per- 

 cent of New England's tree population. It has 1.3 percent of the trees 

 under 7 years and 1,2 percent under 12 years. Connecticut has 11.7 per- 

 cent of the trees under 7 years and 13.4 percent under 12 years. It 

 has 13,4 percent of the total tree numbers in New England. 



