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* One of these fruits alone weighed 8 ounces. 
Individual record is not made in this table of the seeds which 
did not germinate; but as has just been stated, they were practi- 
cally all of a specific gravity less than that of water. By float- 
ing the seeds off in water a few germinable seeds were floated off 
at the same time; but an inspection of the table above shows 
that in not a single instance did any such seed produce a first- 
class productive plant. Out of fifty light colored seeds planted 
only six bore fruits at all, and the average weight of these fruits 
was only a little over one ounce. Among forty-five black 
seeds all of a specific gravity less than 1.00, eight germinated, 
but only four of these produced any fruit and in every case the 
weight of the fruit was less than one ounce. It appears, then, 
that if one should float off egg-plant seed in pure water, he would 
be throwing away no seed of high quality. At the same time he 
would by this mechanical method be getting rid of practically all 
of the black seeds, which are mostly floaters and which uniformly 
produce considerably less vigorous plants than do light colored 
seeds of the same size. 
As has already been said, germination was practically perfect 
among the seeds of a specific gravity 1.00 and above. Of such 
plants which lived through the season (two or three had died) 
sixteen out of nineteen produced fruit, and the ayerage yield 
