48- 



Wet Pan. Fig. 4.— Table 27. 



28. CobcEa scandens. — Vaughan. 



Dry Pan. 



50 seeds, in lo-iiich seed-pans, planted on edge, the middle of the seed 

 being JS^ inch deep. 



No. I, profusely watered. 

 No. 2, sparingly watered. 



SOWN MAY 4, NOON. 



Epitome. — The di£ferences in rapidity between these tests are 

 not pronounced, although the per cent, is considerably higher in 

 the drier pan. Owing to an accident, pan No. 2 became verj^ wet 

 June I, and it was discarded. At this time thirty of the un- 

 .sprouted seeds were rotten. This indicates that the common advice 

 of catalogues to keep coboea seeds nearly dry during sprouting is 

 correct, as even in the drier pan over half the .seeds rotted. The 

 seeds were probably not good, else the totals of sprouting would 

 have been greater. 



