Table 1.

Effectiveness of trunk-injecting Arbotect 20-S on October 4,1979, and October 8,1980. Data were recorded on June 6,1981, and on June 15, 1982.

Number of treesDilution rateYears injected% Twigs blighted% Shoots blighted% Leaves Infected
198119821981198219811982
61:401979, 19800.8a13.4 a1.6 a0.8 a6.2 a2.0 a
61:2019791.5 a6.2 a2.3 a9.7 b11.8 a1.8 a
12  Controls47.0 b  40.8 c  42.4 b  49.6 c  240.0 b
  • 1 Numbers in a column followed by the same letter are not significantly different, DMRT (P=0.01).

  • 2 leaves were present on control trees when data were taken in 1981.