New YorK AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 371 
The heaviest yielding plants were those from the large black 
seeds. 
This table brings out a point in regard to the germination of 
cruciferous seeds which the writer has often observed, namely, 
that no floaters germinate except some of those of large size. 
It would appear from the second part of the table that seeds 
medium to large in size are earlier than those either very small 
or very large. But all of these results with cabbage are unsatis- 
factory. 
EGG-PLANT. 
Records of the results of culture tests with seeds of egg-plants 
of different specific gravities are shown in Table XV. Much 
the larger part of all the seeds planted failed to germinate; but 
practically every seed of a specific gravity of 1.00 or above did 
germinate. The seeds used in this test were purchased of one of 
the leading seed houses in America and were especially certified 
for the purposes cf this experiment to have been produced the 
- year before. It is well-known that egg-plant seed of the best 
quality is of a lov percentage of germination; but the results of 
this test indicaie that nearly all of the ungerminable seeds might 
be separated from such a sample by the mechanical method of 
solutions and thereby the dealer could offer an article known to 
be of high quality and at the seme time showing a high percentage 
of germination. 
TABLE X V.—RESULTS WITH EGc-PLANT. 
Sp. er. Weight of plant. | No. of fruits. oo of 
Ozs. Tifty light colored seed. Ozs. 
<1.00 12 1 1 
9 1 <1 
ue 1 1.5 
22 3 5.5 
2 — _- No fruit. 
17 1 3 
27 4 3.5 
Forty-five black seeds. 
1.00 15 1 <1 
9 pes — ““ 
ital — — x 
20 1 <1 
20 — = . 
f 16 1 <1 
ail — —_ & 
21 1 <1 
