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planting), the seedlings were rearranged so as to leave two in each 

 pot. To accomplish this it was only necessary to remove two 

 seedlings from pot I and to plant one of these in each 

 of pots III and IV. The seedlings in the self-watered 

 pots were as nearly uniform as possible, each pot having 



Figure 3. 



a smaller and a larger one. Those in the control pot were at this 

 time considerably smaller than any others, due to delay in germi- 

 nation which was very pronounced in this pot. At the time of 

 rearranging, the total absorption by the self-watered pots, for 



