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had a high percentage of fruit buds in the spring of 1923 would have a tendency 

 to have a relatively low percentage of bloom in 1924. The percentage of 

 bloom for the two seasons has, therefore, been averaged to eliminate error due 

 to alternate bearing. If the disbudding has an effect upon fruit bud formation 

 it would be expected that the average for the two seasons would be somewhat 

 reduced. The data are given in Tables XIII and XIV. 



Table XIII. — Blossom bud formation on non-disbudded trees, 1923 and 192i. 



Table XIV. — Blossom bud formation on disbudded trees, 1923 and 1924. 



It was found that the non-disbudded trees averaged 39.7 per cent fruit buds 

 for the two seasons and the disbudded trees 41.4 per cent. This difference of 

 only 1.7 per cent is not large enough to be significant. It may be concluded 

 from this that the disbudding did not reduce the proportion of fruit buds formed. 

 However, an average of the fruit bud formation for the two seasons following 

 the budding will give a more accurate basis for comparison than the present one. 



(4) Effect Upon the Set of Fruit. 



Counts were made of the number of spurs setting fruit and the number of 

 apples on each spur, and the data are presented in Tables XV and XVI. 



