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blooming. But it has been thought best to have the average time 
of blooming of each variety as accurate as possible to secure which 
as great a number of observations as could be had were necessarily 
used. Moreover, to have made the years of observation uniform 
in number and in years would have reduced the number of varieties 
greatly, since all of the varieties of a fruit do not often bloom the 
same year. However, a comparison of the blooming periods as 
shown in the table with the actual dates for the several years shows 
that the method of arrangement does not give a wide variance 
between the actual dates for any year and the average dates for the 
several years and that the blooming periods are therefore in 
practically their chronological order. 
