360 Report or THE HorTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE 
in a crude way to compare the relative vigor of germination of 
these different seeds by measuring the length of the radicles. 
These measurements are recorded in the following table: 
TABLE VIII.—Lerenerus or Rapicte MaApE By PEAS oF DIFFERENT 
Sreciric GRAVITIES DuRING THE First Sixty-stx Hours or 
GERMINATION. 
Length of radiclein | Average length in 
Sp.er. No. of seeds. 32ds of an inch. 32ds of an inch. 
eo! 1 4 4 
1.30 : i 
1.29 : - 
1 1 
1 4 4.25 
— 
1.28 2 1 
| 1 3 
2 4 | 
1 7 
1 10 | 
| 2 ape 
| 1 15 | 6 
1.37 - : | 
1 4 
1 6 2.66 
1.26 2 i 
1 6 2.75 
1.25 1 | sy 
\ 1 3 ies 
1.24 : ‘n 
ies : = 
1 5 5.33 
1.22 : = 5 
1.21 | 1 1 
1 4 2.5 
1.20 — | 1 = 
| 1 3 1.66 
| 
1.19 | 2 * 
| 2 2 1 
* Testa broken but radicle not yet protruding. 
No correlations stand out very clearly in this table; but never- 
theless seeds of high specific gravity, that is 1.28 and above, 
made quite uniformly a vigorous germination. On the other 
