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3- Bean, Green Flageolet. — Department of Agriculture. 



No. I, 50 beans on sand and covered witti cloth in seed-pan, in incubator. 

 No. 2, same, in forcing-house. 



SOWN APR. 15. 



* The beans decayed badly. 



Epitome. — Better results, both in rapidity and percent, of sprout- 

 ing, occurred under varying temperatures. In constant tempera- 

 ture the beans decayed badly, owing, perhaps, to the manner in 

 which they were sown ; the sprouting was slow, evidently from 

 the same reason, as the beans were probably too moist in the con- 

 fined atmosphere of the incubator. 



4. Bean, Green Flageolet. — Department of Agriculture. 



No. I, 100 beans in folds of cloth in seed-pans, in incubator. 

 No. 2, same in forcing-house. 



SOWN APR. 15. 



Epitome. — Much greater rapidity of sprouting occurred under 

 constant temperature, although the mean temperature was higher 

 in the other case. The total per cent, of sprouting was also 

 slightly higher under constant temperature. 



5. Bean, Green Flageolet. — Department of Agriculture. 



No. I, 50 seeds, green-colored, between cloth, in a seed-pan, in incubator, 



No. 2, same in forcing-house. 



SOWN APR. 23. 



* No. 2 was not so uniformlj' moist during the first day as No. i. 

 Epitome. — Sprouting was more rapid under constant tempera- 

 ture, and the total amount was nearly 30 per cent, higher. 



