164 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Crab and Dwarfing stocks, the budding being done in August 1913 and 
the grafting in April 1914. Unfortunately, we were not then 
able to obtain standard types of stocks, such as are obtainable 
at the present time, and the use of which would perhaps have made 
the results more convincing if not more reliable. However, the 
stocks were kept under close observation when growing in the nursery 
bed, and " rogued " and " selected," so that those used were as 
uniform in character and vigour as was then possible to obtain. 
When planted in their permanent quarters in the Experimental 
Plantation in the winter of 1 914-15, the trees were so arranged that 
those of Good History alternated with those of Bad History. Their 
subsequent general treatment was that usual for plantation trees, 
but great importance was attached to the treating of one and all in 
exactly the same manner throughout. 
From the time of planting, careful observations have been made 
upon the behaviour of the trees each year. 
From the first it was noticeable that trees in each set were 
showing marked differences in vigour, but this was no more 
apparent among the trees of Good History than among those of Bad 
History, and, although this difference has been observed throughout, 
on the average of several trees there has been little, if any, difference 
in the total behaviour of trees from the two parent trees of each 
variety. 
The trees of Good and Bad History commenced to bear fruit much 
about the same time. As was to be expected, those on the Crab stock 
were a little later in coming into bearing than those on the Dwarfing 
stock, but it was not observed that trees of Good History were any 
earlier or later in coming into fruiting than those of Bad History on 
the same stock. 
The records of the numbers of fruits carried by each tree show 
that very wide differences are again to be found between the trees of 
each variety in both groups — i.e. those of Bad Histoty and those of 
Good History. To illustrate this point the numbers of fruits carried 
by trees of ' Cox's Pomona ' on the Crab stock are interesting. There 
were twenty-five trees of Good History and twenty-five of Bad History 
on this stock, and the figures show the total fruits carried by each 
tree. 
Good History Trees. — 112, 97, 94, 93, 87, 82, 80, 79, 66, 62, 62, 
55, 54> 42, 37> 36, 34> 32, 27, 16, 16, 13, 12, 7, 4. 
Bad History Trees.— 230, 154, 148, 129, 83, 75, 75, 62, 58, 55, 54, 
42, 33, 33, 32, 18, 14, 14, 14, 10, 9, 8, 8, 3, o. 
Thus we have the extremes of 11 2-4 with an average of 52 
fruits for each tree with the Good History trees, and the extremes 
230-0 with an average of 54 with those of Bad History, and much 
the same variation between individual trees of each group. The wide 
variation between individuals so commonly apparent in collections 
of trees is well shown by the behaviour of the trees of this variety. 
