Table 1.

Initial height (cm), height increase (cm), initial caliper and caliper increase of green ash during 1991 and 1992 in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Bag	Gel	Peat	Fertilizer	Oklahoma	Kansas	Oklahoma		Kansas
Bag	Gel	Peat	Fertilizer	Oklahoma	Kansas	1991	1991	1992
				Initial height (cm)		Height increase (cm)
No	No	No	No	213a^z	220a	19.6a	7.8a	13.2a
Yes	No	No	No	187ab	190ab	12.3a	8.8a	13.7a
Yes	No	No	Yes	155b	155b	21.6a	11.3a	22.1a
Yes	No	Yes	No	182ab	184ab	19.8a	8.6a	22.0a
Yes	No	Yes	Yes	180ab	181ab	19.5a	9.9a	26.0a
Yes	Yes	No	No	174b	175b	21.8a	8.9a	22.0a
Yes	Yes	No	Yes	165b	177b	18.7a	8.7a	24.7a
Yes	Yes	Yes	No	155b	167b	16.7a	8.8a	23.0a
				Initial caliper (mm)		Caliper increase(mm)
No	No	No	No	37.2a^z	35.1a	6.9a	16.6a	3.8a
Yes	No	No	No	26.9b	29.7ab	4.6a	16.1a	7.4a
Yes	No	No	Yes	26.4b	24.0a	4.6a	16.2a	9.1a
Yes	No	Yes	No	25.3b	28.8ab	5.2a	13.1a	4.4a
Yes	No	Yes	Yes	25.5b	3O.4ab	4.5a	18.7a	6.2a
Yes	Yes	No	No	24.8b	28.5ab	3.2a	17.6a	5.1a
Yes	Yes	No	Yes	25.3b	25.7b	7.1a	17.6a	8.0a
Yes	Yes	Yes	No	27.1b	26.5b	4.3a	17.3a	4.6a

↵z Mean separation between columns by Tukey’s w Procedure. Means followed by the same letter are not significantly different (P = 0.05).