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TABLE 22.—Showing varieties budded and the number of each—Continued. 
| | | Number 
| not 
Number and variety | badded | Total 





‘Block. No. Kinds of stock. ; Treatment. | | ohac- number 
budded. count of; dead. 
| leaf- 
| | | blight. 
| | ; 
26 225 Apple seed- | Ammoniacal solution, 5| 75 Rome Beauty ..-. 5 ? 
| lings. times. 72 C. BK. June’. --=-<. 8 9 
50 Ben Davis: -- =~ - 6 § 
ref ahs re aoe | 1S ee a Ammoniacal solution, 7 | 71 Rome Beauty -... 7 
times. 12 O. dn. +.s-5- 4 10 
55 Ben Davis: ---.<-- 2 
2 | 150: }> do ® 223... 3c | Ammoniacal solution, 6 | 48 Rome Beauty .-..| 1 
| times. 48'\C. BR. June --.---=2 st 4 
48 Ben Davis. .-.....-. 1 
291-298 12 200 oes 32 Potassium sulphide..--...- 92 Rome Beauty ....- 3 we 
37-0. RK. June): =2-2<- 9 10 
| 86 Ben Davis...-..-.. ll § 
30 75 Plum stocks..|; Bordeauxmixture,5times-| 26 German Prune... 3 ? 
| 20 Shipper’s Pride -. 2 7 
i, 45 Lombard. - = 2-.<—- 2 § 
31 1 ee Os! See Bordeaux mixture, 7 times. | 19 German Prune... 2 
| 16 Shipper’s Pride -.-| at 16 
| . 18 tombard =< =... 4 
32 [iy SEE Cs eee | Ammoniaecal solution, 5} 22 German Prune... 1 
times. 23 Shipper’s Pride -. 0 7 
22 Lombard......-... oy 
2nd ie 9 eee Ammoniacal solution, 7} 24 German Prune... i 
times. 26 Shipper’s Pride -. 2 4 
ot LOM ATe = | 0 
eg PELL CR oe | ee eee [TEE eis PP bests Se See aie 48 GermanPrune 2 
| 40 Shipper’s Pride 50 st 2 
| | 47 Lombard......- 0 
The season had been a remarkably favorable one for the stock, and a 
correspondingly unfavorable one for the development of leaf-blight and 
other diseases. At the time of budding, therefore, the stock was in 
much better condition than it had been for a number of years, con- 
sequently the results set forth in the following pages are not so striking 
as they would have been under ordinary conditions. Up to this time 
the main object of the treatments had been to keep the stock in such 
condition that it could be budded with ease. Stocks even moderately 
affected with leaf-blight and other diseases of the foliage often work 
with great difficulty, the bark frequently refusing to slip and the buds, 
even if inserted, dying outright, or as nurserymen express it, refusing 
to “take.” | 
To obtain the desired information as to the condition of the stocks 
with respect to the points just mentioned it was decided to make four 
grades of the trees, referring each to the proper grade when the bud 
was inserted. The grades were as follows: 
(1) Stock that worked or budded with ease. 
(2) Stock that worked with difficulty. 
(3) Stock that refused to work. 
(4) Dead stock. 
