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SOWN MAY 4. 



Epitome. — The rapidity of .sprouting was much greatest under 

 constant temperature, while in the cellar, with a mean temperature 

 21° lower, the seeds were about nine days behind. Percentages 

 were rather better under variable high temperatures, and lowest 

 under variable low temperatures. 



g. Radish, Half-Lo7ig Early Scarlet. — Vilmorin. 



50 seeds in each of 6 5-inch seed-pans, % inch deep in sand. 

 Nos. I and 2, placed in incubator. 

 Nos. 3 and 4, in forcing-house. 

 Nos. 5 and 6, in cellar. 



SOWN APR. 26. 



* Average for first nine days, 4834°. 



Epito)ne. — There is no marked difference in rapidity of sprout- 

 ing, between samples in constant temperature and tho.se in vary- 

 ing temperatures with a high mean, but there is great difference 

 between these two sets of samples and those under varying tem- 

 peratures with a mean 17° lower. Three days after sowing, 45 

 seeds had sprouted in the incubator, and 49 in the forcing-hou.se, 

 while it was not until the eleventh day that 42 .seeds had sprouted 

 in the cellar. Yet the total sprouting was greatest in the cellar by 

 7 and 10 per cent. 



10. Turnip, Red Top Strap Leaf. — Thorburn. 



50 seeds of each number, X i"ch deep in sand, in 5-iiich seed-pans. 

 Nos. I and 2, placed in incubator. 

 Nos. 3 and 4, in forcing-house. 

 Nos. 5 and 6, in cellar. 



