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panying table shows the number planted in each medium, the 
number germinated, and the per cent. of 
germination. The 
garden loam is evidently not as good a medium as the others, pos- 
sibly on account of its well-known tendency to start rotting. All 
the percentages, however, are higher than those given by Toumey, 
Taste IIT. Germination or JAPANESE-AMERICAN Hype CHESTNUT 
Per cent. of 
1 TO, No. d 
Kind of Soil Planted = Germinated Germination 
Love lslatid SOi sss vedetenouncaxdas Bo 44 84.6 
Garden loam v.00... 2... e eee ee eee 42 30 71.4 
Kohavel.” s.ans sno wiacct ao eddeaiees 30 26 86.6 
There is another factor which may have been operative in the 
relative viability of the nuts, namely their difference in parentage. 
The following table shows the germination percentage of the 
different hybrids, as well as their subsequent history to October 
I, 1932 
Tarte TV. Record or JAPANESE-AMERICAN Cuestnut Hysring anp 
CuHEcks: 1932 
Max. Min. Average 
Per No. Height Height Height 
Owner of No. ot No. cent, Living in in in 
Japanese Nuts Germi- of Ger- Oct. 1, Inches Inches Inches 
Parent Planted nated mination 1932. Oect.1 Oct. 1 Oct. 
Winthrop ........ 5 5 100 5 15 7 10.4 
Folk oo... ... 00, 14 6 42.8 2 12 12 12 
Hammond ....... 10 4 40 4 36 6 19,25 
Minturn ......... 1 1 100 ) 0 0) 0 
Smith vo... . 2... 92 81 88 ol 20 3 10.1 
Cheeks, 1932 
POUS JADE deeccs ten i 4 ofl Z is) 6 105 
Hammond Jap. ... 11 2 1.8 2 10 8 9 
Minturn ......... | 1 100 ] _ = 15 
Smith ........00. 15 10 66.6 6 16 4 7.5 
Italian” 
chestnuts ....... 15 10 66.6 11! 28 2 12.1 
American chest- 
nuts (Thomson) . 7 10 4 7.7 
One nut had two embryos. 
