New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 359 
TaBLeE VIJ.—SHowING DISTRIBUTION OF CHAMPION OF ENGLAND 
Peas AS Recarps Speciric Gravity; ALSo SHowinc NUMBER 
oF GERMINATIONS IN First Srxtry-six Hours anp Toran Num- 
BER OF GERMINATIONS. 
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From this table, as also from the chart, it appears that among 
the 100 seeds set, 85 were in the range from 1.19 and above and 
15 were in the range below 1.19. Of the 85 seeds in the higher 
range, 74 germinated in all, or 87 per ct. Of the 15 seeds in the 
lower range, only one, or 6.6 per ct. germinated, and this ger- 
mination was very weak. Of the 74 germinations in the higher 
range, 48 occurred the first day of germination, or 65 per ct. 
The one germination below 1.19 did not occur until the second 
day tater. It appears, then, that if one should make up a solu- 
.tion of common kitchen salt to its maximum density (1.20) and 
Separate Champion of England peas by this means, he could 
separate out nearly all of the germinable seeds and discard a con- 
siderable part of the poor seeds. 
In the course of the observations on the relative vigor of ger- 
mination of peas of different specific gravities reported in Table 
VII, it was noticed that among those seeds which had germinated 
in the first sixty-six hours, some had germinated either earlier 
or else much more vigorously than others. An effort was made 
