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The 1917-18 experiments were commenced in November, 1917, 
and in order to ascertain whether seeds taken from different trees 
possessed the same germinating qualities, seeds were gathered 
separately from 10 trees on November 27, and they were taken 
rom all parts of the trees, so that each sample was thoroughly 
representative of the yield. They were sown on November 28, 
part as gathered and part pulped. The percentage of germination 
differed in the seeds from the different trees, but im every case 
the pulped seeds both germinated quicker and better than the 
unpulped. From the 10 trees the percentage of seedlings from 
unpulped seeds varied from 3 to 23-4, whilst for pulped seeds 
the minimum was 65-2 and the maximum was 95-4. A diagram 
illustrating the percentage of seedlings from each kind of seed 
from the 10 trees is both interesting and instructive. 
In this series of experiments the advantage of earlier germina- 
The Fruiting of the Ginkgo at Kew.—There does not appear 
to be any record of the Ginkgo having borne fruits in the British 
Isles. Kent, the author of Veitch’s Manual, evidently had no 
knowledge of this having ever occurred, and observes merely that 
fruit is ‘“‘rarely, if ever, seen in this country.” Elwes and 
Henry, too, in The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, p. 96, 
no fruit so far as they know has ever been produced in 
It is worth while, therefore, to put on record the 
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