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Received for publication 11 May 1992. Accepted for publication 20 May 1993.
Paper no. 3062 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Univ. of
Massachusetts, Amherst. This research was supported in part by Experiment
Station project no. 696. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by
the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be
hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact. Fig. 1. Notching above apple vegetative bud (Oberhofer, 1990).
Fig. 2. Effect of notching and bud location on the incidence of shoot production of
‘Spurcort Cortland’–M.7. There was no location effect on notched buds, whereas
control buds were significantly affected by location (P ≤ 0.01).