Table 1.

Shoot growth of transplanted container-grown and field-grown areca palms with fertilizer applied at three locations and at three rates.

				Shoot Growth^{^z} (cm)
				Experiment 1			Experiment 2
Significant effects	Transplant source	Fertilizer placement	Rate	Three months	Six months	Twelve months	Three months	Six months	Twelve months
	Container-grown	Backfill incorporation		5.9	26.0	31.4	9.6	39.5 a^{^y}	46.5 a
		Bottom of hole		17.6	19.0	39.6	15.8	26.8 b	35.9 b
		Surface application		8.0	16.7	28.1	12.2	34.7 ab	46.1 ab
Placement (P-value)				NS^{^x}	NS	NS	NS	0.01	0.0059
			0	1.7 b	3.4 c	25.7	1.8 b	15.6 b	22.4 b
			250	3.1 b	11.1 b	29.1	10.2 ab	31.5 a	39.6 a
			500	17.9 a	30.1 a	37.0	14.9 a	35.5 a	46.0 a
Rate (P-value)				0.0004	0.027	NS	0.035	0.0006	0.0013
	Field-grown	Backfill incorporation		16.8 a	17.9	19.8	11.0	19.0	19.9
		Bottom of hole		8.0 b	10.0	18.8	2.3	6.2	26.6
		Surface application		8.8 b	4.8	24.1	8.4	8.9	22.1
Placement (P-value)				0.0003	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
			0	3.2	8.5	9.3	0.0 b	0.0 b	4.4 b
			250	9.5	10.8	22.9	13.1 a	15.1 a	25.9 a
			500	7.0	11.6	18.9	1.7 b	7.7 ab	19.4 a
Rate (P-value)				NS	NS	NS	0.0094	0.05	0.0064
Overall effects (P-values)
Transplant source				0.0004	0.0001	0.0001	0.0008	NS	NS
Placement				0.05	NS	NS	NS	0.0001	0.0001
Rate				0.0001	NS	NS	NS	NS	NS
Source × placement				0.0004	NS	NS	0.0095	NS	NS
Source × rate				0.0005	0.04	NS	0.0031	0.019	0.049
Placement × rate				0.049	NS	NS	NS	0.0006	NS

↵^zGrowth was calculated as height at three months minus initial height, height at six months minus initial height, and so forth.
↵^yMean separation within columns and fertilizer placement and rate groupings by the Waller-Duncan k-ratio method, P = 0.05.
↵^xNon-significant.