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TABLE 11. Showing the number of budded stocks in each treated and untreated section - 



Continued. 



* Should have been Flemish Beauty mistake of budder. 



t As no disease appeared in the apple buds data is not valuable. Apple seedlings were not budded; 

 peach showed uo disease; none of pear seed germinated. 



Soil, stocks, and buds. The soil upon which the nursery was planted is considered 

 hy practical nurserymen as well suited to the growing of plums and cherries but as 

 lacking somewhat in the qualities which go to make up the best soil for pears and 

 apples, being of insufficient depth and a trifle too light. Immediately previous to 

 the experiment the soil had been planted to corn, but what fertilizers had been 

 used, if any, and what crops were grown anterior to that season, I have not been 

 able to ascertain. No fertilizer was applied before putting in the stocks and the 



