28 CLUB TYPES OF NUCLEAR POLYNESIA. 
over half increasing by an amount between 1 and 2 inches; between 2 
and 4 inches lie five-eighths of the rootstocks and a scant fifth of the 
billets, yet the billets show an increment of from 4 to 5 inches not found 
at all in the rootstocks. 
TABLE 9. 
Girth Girth 
difference Piece No. difference Piece No. 
(inches) (inches) 
1.25 3782 a 2.5 3175, 1974, 2485, 2484 
1.5 3783, 3782 b, 3100, 2482, 3782 25 Gis 2481 
2.25 3782 C, 3303 4, 2479 3.25 2483 
The measurements of the length of the head are affected by the same 
factor of uncertainty as noted in the last array of figures. Such as 
they are, they are presented in table ro. 
TABLE 10. 
Length Length 
of head Piece No. of head Piece No. 
(inches). (inches). 
2.25 3175 6 1974, 2479 
2.5 3303 a 7 2483, 3100, 2482 
% 2481, 3783 8 3782 b, 3782 
4 3782 ¢ 9 3782 a 
5 2480, 2485 14 2484 

No significance can attach to these figures; there is in them very 
little of the human element of design. A sapling which above ground 
may strike the eye as satisfactory may yield strange results in its root 
region, which is to become the head of the club, and these subterranean 
TABLE 11. 
Girth Girth 
of head Piece No. of head Piece No. 
(inches). (inches). 
7 3175 14 1974 
Io 3303 @ 14.5 2483, 2485 
LIS 2481,3782C,2484 15 2482, 3782 a 
12 3782 16 3100 
12.5 3782 16.5 2479 
13 3782 b 
features are invisible. ‘There is the utmost diversity in the measure- 
ments of the heads of these clubs, because they rest upon the irregu- 
larities of nature, and the most that man can do is to trim off the roots 
