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exercises a retarding influence upon the growth of the plants produced 

 after a month's development to the extent of nearly 60 per cent. Longer 

 periods of soaking has an even greater effect, whilst soaking for three 

 days kills all the seed. 



Table VII. Growth results. 



Broad Beans (Vicia Faba). Observations on the effect of the soaking 

 treatment of the seed upon the subsequent development of the plant 

 were made three weeks after sowing. The small number of these larger 

 seeds used in the experiment does not allow us to place so much value 

 on the results obtained. Those sown dry and those sown after only six 

 hours' soaking did not complete their germination and moreover, the 

 plants produced from the seeds which did completely germinate were 

 very poor compared with those from seeds soaked 24, 48 and 72 hours 

 respectively. The interest lies in the fact that a diametrically opposite 

 result of soaking the seed appears in the subsequent growth of this 

 variety of bean as compared with that obtained with the Dwarf Bean 

 (cf. Table YIII with Table VII), 



Table VIII, Growth results. 



White Lupin. In every member of the series the plants showed very 

 uneven growth, but the effect, if any, of the soaking treatment of the 

 seed upon the plants produced was not apparent to the eye. 



