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for growiufr on. Tlie highest, figure was in a seedling raised from B 208. wliicli 

 recorded 234% sucrose in the juice. Owing to the heavy analytical work 

 and unusual rains during the ripening season, harvesting has. however, extended 

 over a verv long period, and many seedlings have been analysed when their 

 optimum had passed. This has caused us to judge the suciose in a seedling 

 less by its analysis at harvest (bulk analysis) than by the highest recorded, 

 whether in petty or bulk analyses. This method will give a slightly higher 

 series of figures than if the bidk analyses were adhered To. bur tliere is reason 

 to believe that the seedlings grown oii the farm are liaiidicaj^ped. and that 

 many of them would give highei results if planted on (jld sugarcane land. 

 This is clearly indicated in a table showing the sucrose content of some Madias 

 seedlings which were gr(j\vn in a number of diffeient Irjcalities and under 

 different conditions of water and soi! (p. l.jo). 



The variations in the morphological characters of the seedlings have be_en 

 carefully noted, with the object of correlating them with lichness of juice. 

 General habit appears to be of the greatest use in classification of seedlings, 

 as it has proved to be with varieties of cultivated cane. But there are special 

 difficulties in observing it in. youi\g seedlin.gs before planting our. ^rucli 

 attention has been paid to erecti'ess. as many of the North Indian seedlings 

 flevclo]:) a prostrate or creeping habir. Thi< objectionable characte]- has been 

 proved to increase when the seedlings are propagated bv cuttings in the second 

 year, but they vary much in subsequent recovery during their later ^rowth. 

 In some, they remain permanently low and spreading, while in others theie 

 is little trace of obliqueness at crop time. The whole of the varieties of Indian 

 canes collected on the farm have been studied as regards this habit, which 

 appears to be hereditary, and it has been found to be much more prevalent 

 in indigenous Indian canes than in introduced ones. Two cases are ffiven 

 where a seedling has been f(»llowed fiom the germination of the cutting to the 

 flowering stage, and the curve of growth is illu-trated by a series of 

 photographs f>f the successive stages of ob]i(|Ut'n('>s. (P). XXII.) 



Tilleiing, colour and stiiping of the leaves, width of leaves and canes, etc.. 

 are likewise dealt with and vaiiations noted in seedlings of common pareiitage. 

 The possible presence of " rogues," such as are found in other cultivated crops, 

 is discussed, and especially such as have been latelv described bv Bateson 

 and Pellew in culinary peas. Some of the exceptional seedlings in general 

 collections and crosses have been selfed and. instead of splitting up as to 

 parental characters, they appear tf) produce only rogues, a fact which ha^ 

 caused some surpiise for the last two or three vears. In rhese studies of 



