U. S. DEPARTMENT OF ACRICI LTURE. 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY^BULLETIN NO. 58. 



B. T. (iAl.l.iiWAV, Chiij- „f JSuirau. 



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NFW YORK BOTANICAL 



t^ARDEN, LIBRARY, 

 C*v«n by MRS. N. L. BRITTON. 



VITALITY AND GERMLNATlOX OF SEEDS. 



BV 



. J. W. T. DITVEL, 

 Assistant in the Seed LAnoiiATOKY. 



BOTANICAL INVKSTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. 



Issued May 28, 1904. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 



190-1. 



