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The mean length of the laterals is given in Tables I and II, but it will 
facilitate the inquiry to have them assembled in basipetal order as in 
Table V. These means are composites of those in Tables I and II, 
but in making them due weight was given to the shoot-producing power 
of each class of mother shoots. The shorter mother shoots were neces¬ 
sarily omitted in making up the means of buds having higher serial 
numbers. For example, consider a mother shoot which had, after 
pruning, 14 buds. Obviously this shoot could produce no laterals from 
the twentieth bud, because it had none. Therefore, it was omitted from 
all classes having more buds than 14 at the outset. If a mother shoot 
possessing originally 26 buds failed to produce a lateral from the twentieth 
bud, its production (for that bud) was counted as zero and the mean was 
correspondingly influenced. 
Table V .—Mean length of laterals produced on mother shoots 
Pruned. 
Unpruued. 
Lateral No. 
Observed. 
S. 
Observed. 
vS. 
Apical. .. 
Cm. 
Cm. 
Cm. 
Cm. 
67. 76 
I.. .. 
no. 18 
69.14 
Iiol 18 
70. 66 
40. 09 
20. 08 
6. 43 
6. 29 
i -93 
2. 23 
1. 64 
*• 5 i 
2. 40 
1 Re 
07. 70 
15 - 49 
20. 67 
5 - 94 
II... 
44 - 22 
III..... 
10. 72 
IV. 
0 A * 
I2 * 34 
4. 64 
V. 
X A. 
3-34 
vi.:.. 
I. 82 
1 C 7 
3.01 
VII. 
2. 13 
2. 156 
2. 31 
2. 74 
VIII. 
0 ■ J / 
2. 29 
IX.......... 
.88 
2. 22 
2. 69 
X. 
XI.... 
X. 
2. 02 
2. 27 
XII........ .. 
7 C 7 
2. 22 
2. 52 
2. 16 
XIII. 
O * v) / 
T C C 
1. 05 
2. 09 
1.58 
T T A 
XIV.. 
1.18 
• 55 
1.87 
z. 30 
I.05 
53 
1.44 
1.44 
2 - 53 
. 62 
1. 71 
1. 90 
1.63 
xv......: .- .. 
XVI. 
I. IO 
I* 13 
T /-.Q 
1. 11 
XVII .. 
1. 15 
.86 
XVIII.,... . 
XIX. 
I. Oo 
•71 
.69 
.48 
•37 
. 92 
.89 
. 60 
XX. 
73 
XXI.. 
.68 
XXII. 
1. 77 
n «« 
• 53 
XXIII. 
•44 
XXIV. 
z. 05 
2. 69 
3-04 
1. 52 
•39 
•33 
XXV.. 
3 - °7 
2 -33 
.29 
•30 
XXVI . 
. 22 
•25 
XXVII . 
• 7 i 
. 21 
. 22 
XXVIII . 
1. 11 
•36 
. 22 
. 11 
XXIX . 
0 
. 11 
XXX . 
0 
0 
0 
XXXI . 
0 
0 
0 
XXXII . 
0 
0 
0 
XXXIII . 
0 
0 
XXXIV . 
0 
0 
0 
XXXV . 
0 
0 
0 
XXXVI . 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
