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A commercial apple tree consists of two parts grafted together. The upper, the scion, determines the main characteristics of the fruit and leaves, while the lower, the root-stock, largely determines the size and development of the tree. At the beginning of the century it was generally accepted that a root-stock propagated asexually, for example by cuttings or from a stool-bed, gave a dwarf tree, whereas one propagated sexually, that is from seed, gave a large tree.
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Andrews, D.F., Herzberg, A.M. (1985). A Classical Apple Experiment. In: Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5098-2_61
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