RINGING AND CONSTRICTING BRANCHES OF APPLE AND PEAR TREE. 23 



TABLE VI. 



RESULTS OF RING-BARKING THE BRANCHES OF ANNIE ELIZABETH. 



Clean. Pitted. Total. Per cent. Shedding of First Full Final 



Ibs. Ibs. Ibs. Pitted. Leaves. Bloom. Bloom. Bloom. 



28th June, 1912 .. . . 1J | 1|- ) 9th May 26-10 4-11 7'11 



30th July, 1912 .. .. 16 2| 18| 14 14th June 21-10 2-11 4-11 



29th August, 1912 .. 2 J 2| j 23rd June 24-10 28-10 2-11 



30th September, 1912 .. 3-| 4 ) 1st June 21-10 28-10 4-11 



30th October, 1912 .. 5i J 5f 14 1st June 21-10 28-10 2-11 



6th November, 1912 .. 6| If 8J j 1st June 10-10 28-10 2-11 



Total for ringed branches 35J 5J 41 14 



Remainder of tree . . 4H 14 55J 25 1st August 



Windfalls .. ..13" 11J 24J 46 



54| 25;] 79f 32 



Entire tree .. . . 89f 31 120f 25 



Check tree . . . . 44J 8 53 16 1st August 



Windfalls .. .. 9J 5 14f 35 



54 132 671 20 



As a rule there was less Pit when the cinctures were made in the spring than in the winter months, 

 but during the past season there was no difference. 



If the fruit gathered from the ringed branches is compared with that from the remainder of the 

 tree, it is found that 14 per cent, by weight were pitted in the former and 25 per cent, in the latter. 



There was thus less pitted fruit on the ringed branches than on the ordinary branches of the same 

 tree, and this holds good throughout for the branches ringed in the spring months, with the exception 

 of the first year. 



The windfalls are not taken into account in this estimate, for the simple reason that they could 

 not be assigned to their proper source. 



The wound has not completely healed in any of the ringed branches. The callus from the upper 

 and lower margins has not met at all in any of the ringed branches, with the exception of the branch 

 ringed in August, where there is a meeting just at one small spot. 



CONSTRICTION OF BRANCH OF BEURRE DE CAPIAUMONT PEAR TREE 



BY WIRE OF LABEL. 



This is the fourth year in which the result of constricting the limb has been observed. The con- 

 stricted limb has not made as much growth as the rest of the tree, but the fruit is similar in size and 

 ripeness, so that it did not mature earlier. The wound, however, has now healed over, and no difference 

 is observable in the shedding of the leaves. When examined on 1st June the upper two-thirds of the 

 tree as a whole was bare of leaves, while the leaves still adhered to the lower one-third. By 14th June 

 the leaves had completely dropped. 



The fruit was perfectly clean throughout, and was gathered on 8th March. The pears off the 

 constricted limb numbered 203, and off the remainder of the tree 1,152, consisting of five branches, 

 Thus the yield was less, on an average, from the limb constricted by the wire. 



