BULLETIN No. 149 APRIL, 19 14 



MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICILTIRAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



A STIDY 



or 



VARIATION IN APPLES 



By J. K. SHAW 



This bulletin contains the results of a statistical study of the 

 variation in number, size and form of the apples borne during 

 a period of six years on several Ben Davis and Baldwin apple 

 trees growing in the College orchard; and a consideration of 

 the influences causing this variation. 



Requests for bulletins should be addressed to the 



Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Amherst, Mass. 



