Show Leaf Area Needed for Best Apple Production The Washington experiment has been conducting experiments on the relation of leaf lent area to fruit It was found that twenty to thirty leaves for each ench fruit are necessary to produce an nn apple of ot commercial size under conditIons conditions con con- In Washington state and that forty to fifty leaves per fruit are needed needed needed need need- ed If f fruit buds are wanted wonted for the next seasons season's crop The maintenance of T i vigorous growth of tree by an nn available supply of nitrogen abundance abundance ahun- ahun dance of organic matter and sufficient moisture will maintain a large leaf leat area There have hn been indications that In the tile East Enst moisture is most commonly commonly commonly com com- the chief limiting factor of ot these three last Items It is estimated that the average twenty to year twenty old apple tree will carry rry sixty to one onehundred onehundred onehundred hundred thousand leaves lea which means that the crop on such a tree should be limited to one thousand five hundred hun bun hundred dred Bred to two thousand five fi hundred bundred fruits if It best commercial size and quality as well as ns annual crops are tobe to tobe tobe be obtained |