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Taking up the several claims for dwarf trees, we have to dis- 
cuss first early bearing. The following are the comes yields 
for the several years in the three orchards: 
The first year after planting — trees three years from the bud 
— one apple was borne by a Boiken on a Paradise stock. The 
second year after planting, the 602 Paradise trees in the three 
orchards bore 237 apples, Boiken, Ben Davis, Wealthy and 
Wagener producing the crop. The 444 Doucin trees bore 
twenty-one apples, distributed among nearly as many varieties. 
The 114 standard trees bore no apples this second year. These 
figures give an average of less than half an apple to the tree 
for the Paradise stock, hardly justifying the oft-made assertion 
that trees on this stock bear paying crops the second year from 
planting. The third year the Paradise trees bore in the three 
orchards an average of 1.6 apples per tree. The Doucin stock 
an average of a little over a half apple per tree. The 114 
standard trees this year bore two apples. In 1908, the fourth 
year from setting, the Paradise trees bore an average of 5.7 
apples per tree; the Doucins 1.8 apples; the Standards this 
year bore nearly a third of an apple per tree. The fifth year 
from setting the 602 Paradise trees bore 12.7 apples per tree; 
the 444 Doucins bore a fraction less than six apples per tree 
and the 114 Standards produced a half apple per tree. 
These figures are for the combined orchards and for all 
varieties. If we separate the orchards the figures are changed 
somewhat, because of the changed natural condition under 
which the trees are growing. The Van Alstyne orchard had no 
apples until the third year after setting, and then but three, 
one of which was on a standard, and the other two on Doucin. 
The fourth and fifth year it bore small crops, the proportion 
of the crop being about the same for the three stocks. In this 
orchard the Paradise trees are not coming in bearing earlier 
than even the standards. In the Dawley orchard the Doucin 
trees came in bearing with the Paradise trees, but for the past 
two seasons have been more productive, though the difference 
is within the range of chance variation. It is only in the Wood 
