Table 3.

The effects of complete flower removal, at anthesis, the previous year for ‘Baldwin’ plants, on number of new shoots, mean shoot length and total shoot length per plant

	No. of new shoots	Mean shoot length (cm)	Total shoot length per plant (cm)
Control	54·1	22·8	1245
Removed	64·4	25·9	1675
F. prob.	n.s.	*	n.s.
s.e.d. (d.f. = 39)	10·53	1·03	250·2

F. prob., F. probabilities: *, 0·05; n.s., non-significant.

s.e.d., Standard error of differences between the means; d.f., residual degrees of freedom for comparison.