THE PROPAGATION OF APPLE TREES. 



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Table 3, — Reset Trees rooting in 1917-18. 



Effect of Soil and Season. 



These experiments have continued over a period of seven years, new 

 plantings being made in all but the seventh year. The six plantings 

 have been on different plots, but all are similar in soil texture. The first 

 lot grafted in 1912 was planted in part on experiment station land, while 

 part were planted in a commercial nursery in Westfield, Mass. Later 

 plantings were all at the experiment station. The number grown and 

 per cent rooted from the scion at Amherst and Westfield are given in 

 Table 4. These figures show no very consistent differences between the 

 two locations. Wliere there are wide differences, one is below and the 

 other above the average for the variety. Small numbers involved will 

 account for many of the divergences in the proportion rooting from the 

 scion. The soil in the two locations is similar, the Westfield location 

 having a little less gravel and more fine sand and silt. Both would be 

 called fine sandy loams. 



