Table 4.

Average number of branches per plant by Magnolia grandiflora as influenced by planting date, mulching, and fertilizer placement.

Sampling date	Planting time		Mulch		Fertilizer placement
Sampling date	fall	spring	with	without	none	top	backfill	bottom
12/80	6.4	6.3	7.4	5.2**^{^z}	6.0	5.5	7.2	6.8
5/82	8.2	9.9*^{^y}	10.4	7.7**	7.2a^{^x}	8.1a	10.8b	10.2b

↵^z indicates highly significant difference (.01) between mean pairs.
↵^y indicates significant (.05) difference between mean pairs.
↵^x Mean separation (.05). Means within main effect followed by the same letter are not significantly different.