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numbers show the average number of blossom buds on a tree, not 
actual blossoms ; no attempt has yet been made to arrive at the 
average number of blossoms to each blossom bud ; although no 
doubt it varies, we may perhaps roughly take it as five or six. 
The counting of the buds was delayed until after the pruning of 
the pruned trees was completed, as many blossom buds cannot be 
identified until the buds begin to open, and there are therefore many 
cases in which a large proportion of the blossom buds were pruned 
away. 
Table I. — Average Number of Blossom Buds a Tree.* 
1920. 
1921. 
Unpruned. 
-ong-spur Pruned. 
Unpruned. 
Long-spur Pruned. 
No. of 
Blossom 
No. of 
Blossom 
No. of 1 
Blossom 
No. of 
Blossom 
Trees. 
Buds. 
Trees. 
Buds. 
1 
Trees. 
Buds. 
Trees. 
Buds. 
Allington 
3 
IO13 
8 
I 4 I 
5 
324 
8 
166 
Beauty of Bath . 
3 
368 
8 
170 
5 
532 
488 
8 
268 
4 
8 
2 
Cox's Orange 
4 
603 
8 
126 
Early Victoria 
(Crab) 
5 
185 
8 
91 
Gladstone (Crab) . 
4 
327 
8 
9 
Grenadier (Crab) . 
3 
5°4 
8 
5° 
5 
173 
8 
91 
James Grieve (Cra 
b) 
4 
1293 
8 
201 
Lane's P. Albert . 
3 
1274 
8 
64 
5 
416 
8 
96 
Lord Derby 
6 
381 
8 
94 
Newton Wonder . 
3 
890 
8 
139 
5 
117 
8 
139 
Norfolk Beauty . 
4 
45° 
7 
80 
Rival . 
4 
414 
8 
69 
Worcester-Pear- 
main (Crab) 
3 
637 
8 
85 
5 
649 
8 
IOI 
Average number 
of blossom buds 
18 
781 
48 
108 
65 
454 
in 
no 
The only case where the number of blossom buds on the long-spur 
pruned trees was higher than on the unpruned trees was ' Newton 
Wonder ' in 192 1. The unpruned ' Newtons ' bore an exceptionally 
heavy crop in 1920, and several of them almost entirely failed to 
blossom in 1921 ; hence the difference. It will be seen that the six 
varieties counted in 1920 show on the average in 192 1 a reduction in 
number of blossom buds from each unpruned tree ; this is clearly 
due to the heavy crop borne by four of these varieties in 1920. The 
other two, ' Beauty of Bath ' and ' Worcester Pearmain/ which bore 
only a light crop in 1920, show some increase in number of blossom 
buds. These points will be dealt with later. 
* The averages in all Tables are given to the nearest whole number. 
