Table 1

Mean sprout measurements for control (C) and treated (T) sycamore trees with dikegulac at various development stages^{^a}.

Development stage	Date	Day	Number of sprouts		Longest sprouts		Sprout length		Phytotoxicity
Development stage	Date	Day	C	T	C	T	C	T	C	T
Pre bud-break	April 3	93	8.00	8.43	68.1	47.0^*	46.4	29.6^*	0.4	2.0
Bud-break	April 16	106	8.89	11.75	83.2	31.0^*	58.6	17.0^*	0.0	2.1
Leaves halfdeveloped	May 29	149	5.56	8.63^*	86.2	33.3^*	66.7	19.3^*	0.4	2.1
Leaves full-developed	June 19	170	4.60	11.29^*	88.8	11.7^*	43.9	6.8^*	0.4	3.8
Post-leaf development	July 19	190	6.33	8.63	71.4	45.6^*	35.4	27.4	0.8	2.0

↵^aData are means of 10 trees. All trees were pruned prior to chemical treatment.
↵^*Significant difference between control (pruned) and treated (pruned and dikegulac injected) tree (LSD at 0.05 level).