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obtain strictly uniform results, all the berries should have been picked 
when properly ripe. ‘lo have done this would have entailed my re- 
maining at Yercaud tor at least three or four weeks, visiting the 
bushes every day to pluck the berries as they ripened. I did not feel 
justitied in doing this, more especially because plucking had already 
commenced and there was considerable danger that an ignorant cooly, 
by stripping the bushes under experiment, might have spoi't the whole 
series. ‘l'here was also danger of losing the ripening berries owing to the 
attucks uf birds and other auimals and: also to their dropping off under 
the influence of the cold wet days which were experienced at this time, 
I therefore picked all the berries of the experimental branches and of 
their controls, noting their comparative appearances as under :— 
Resutts of experiments at Yercaud. 
Number 
of experi. 
ment. 
Bag applied to 
flowers. 
Appearance of berries 
when plucked. 
Remarks, 
I-A 
-B 
Se en 
Hea ..¢ 
Nom 
na 
III-A ,,< 
All the time .. 
Contro) 
All the time ., 
Contro} 
Dawn to dusk, 
Contro] ve 
Dawn to dusk. 
Control 
Dusk to dawn. 
Control 
28 plump berries, quite rimi- 
lar in appearance to 
norma! (un-netted) ones. 
All green except one 
nearcst tip of branch, 
which is turning red. 
24 berries, all plump, of 
which 7 are turning red. 
22 plump berries, only one 
turning red. 
23 bersivs, of which 3 are less | 
than normal size and 2 
are reddened. 
68 berri-s, mostly plump and 
normal and apparently 
equal! to those on untre- 
ated bushes, but 8 are 
much smaller; 22 red- 
dened. But 40. more 
berries appear to have 
dropped or been + lucked 
recently 8 they are only 
represented hy broken 
stalks, so thet the real 
number of berries deve- 
doped was approximately 
equal to control. 
107 berries, of which 14 are 
smallerthan normal and 
about 28 reddened. 
87 berries, of which 4 are 
sma.J-sized and 7 red- 
dened. e 
83 berries, of which 3 are 
small-sized and 6 red- 
dened. 
65 berries, mcstly green, of 
which about 20 look 
very smull and only 4 
rediered. ‘She whole 
branch locks very poor. 
72 berries, of which about 12 
are small and only 3 
yeddened. The whole 
branch looks poor. 
i 
9 
ome 
& 
There is apparently 
nothing !o ch..ose bet- 
ween experim: nt» I-A 
and 1-B and their 
euntrols. 
No apparent difference 
between JI-A and its 
control,- allowing in 
the former for bro! en- 
off berries which ure 
probably due to birds, 
Apparently little differ- 
ence between experi- 
ment 11-B sand 
oontrol. 
Little difference between 
TiI-A and control is 
perceptible. 
