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POMOLOGY 



Table XXV 



THINNING THE PLUM (AFTER GARCIA) 



Name 



Distance 



thinned in 



inches 



Percentage of 



first-class 



fruit 



Percentage of 



second-class 



fruit 



Wild Goose. 



Clyman . 



Tragedy . 



Yellow Egg . 



3 



None 



3 



None 



6 

 3 



None 



3 



None 



75.7 

 70.1 

 67.4 



93.4 

 85.9 

 53.7 



86.4 

 96.9 

 53.7 



81.1 

 57.5 



27.5 



24.2 



28.8 

 32.5 



6.5 

 14. 



46.2 



13.5 

 3. 



46.2 



15.9 

 30.6 



53. 



On the other hand, Powell reports on thinning trees of 

 the Burbank and Poole's Pride varieties, neither of which 

 was a financial success. It cost ten cents a tree to thin the 

 former and fifteen cents for the latter. "There was some 

 difference in the size of fruit in favor of the thinned trees 

 (Poole's Pride), but the difference was surprisingly small. 

 However, the unthinned trees suffered very heavily from 

 broken branches the latter part of the summer which 

 did not occur with the thinned trees. As far as the 

 crop was concerned the thinning was not a financial 

 success." 



109. Thinning the pear. — Not many data are available 

 on the thinning of pears, but there is no reason to suppose 

 that they would not respond if the trees had set a heavy 



