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Unfortunately for our experiment, severe rains followed the trans- 
planting, which filled many of the trenches with water, thus placing 
the plants set there at some disadvantage. In four of the cases in 
which the yield from the trench falls behind that from the level cul- 
ture, viz.: Long’s Mammoth Red, La Plume Chestnut, Sandringham 
Dwarf White and Seymour’s Solid Red, our notes show that a large 
mortality of plants resulted from the flooding of the trenches. The 
same was the case, however, in Carter’s Half Dwarf, Major Clark’s 
Pink, Perfection Heartwell and Turner’s Dwarf White, yet these va- 
rieties show a larger weight of plant in the trench culture. We can- 
not therefore assign the cases where the yield from the trenches was 
inferior to the damage from water, although from the lay of the land 
some trenches were more flooded than others. 
Averaging our results obtained in seventeen samples in which the 
weights from the two rows are noted separately, we find that omitting 
fractions, plants grown in level culture averaged 177 pounds per hun- 
dred, while those in trench culture averaged 178 pounds per hundred 
lants. 
x It appears that in this experiment the trench culture yielded no re- 
turn for the increased laboreand manuring. It appears, however, 
that the length of the bleached stems was rather greater in the trench 
than in the level culture. We noted also that suckers were more 
numerous on plants grown in trenches, and that the base of the stems 
was more often split and deformed. : | 
Suckers seem to be largely a variety characteristic, although no va- 
rieties are entirely without them. On the Boston Market, Sandring- 
ham Dwarf White, Seymour’s Solid Red and Turner’s Dwarf White, 
they were very numerous, while on Sutton’s Sulham Prize they were 
quite rare. 
The resemblance between many of the samples is very great. It 
seems probable that a more thorough acquaintance with them will 
discover many syhonyms. 

