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WILL SEEDS SPROUT MORE THAN ONCE? 



Creeping bent, 3 per cent. 

 Crested dog's-tail, 8 per cent. 



Large' red clover, 88 per cent. 

 Medium red clover, 88 per cent. 

 Bokhara clover, 48 per cent. 

 Italian clover, 83 per cent. 

 Lucerne, 74 per cent. 

 White clover, 84 per cent. 

 Alsike clover, 64 per cent. 



The writer had kept some home grown seeds at the Agrieult- 

 tiral College for two or three years in several different rooms^, one 

 of which was a damp basement. These seeds Avere shelled out, 

 as were the seeds taken from the samples purchased from the 

 New York seedsman : 



Wood-meadow grass, 1 per cent. 

 Meadow fescue, 7 per cent. 

 Sweet vernal, 15 per cent. 

 Tall fescue, 11 per cent. 

 Darnel spiked fescue, 5 per cent. 

 Orchard grass, 27 per cent. 

 Hungarian grass, 51 per cent. 

 Yellow oat grass, 11 per cent. 

 Timothy, 68 per cent. 

 Italian rye-grass, 31 per cent. 



NEW YORK SEEDS. 

 Shroeder s Bromus, 64 per cent. 

 Sheep's fescue, per cent. 

 June grass, 6 per cent. 

 Rye-grass, 18 per cent. 

 Meadow fescue, 6 per cent. 

 Orchard grass, 66 per cent. 



COLLEGE SEEDS 

 Shi'oeder's Bromus, 96 per cent. 

 Sheep's fescue, 73 per cent. 

 June grass, 28 per cent. 

 Rye-grass, 74 per cent. 

 Meadow fescue, 93 i)er cent. 

 Orchard grass, 83 per cent. 

 Red clover, 53 per cent. 



Red clover, 94 per cent. 



Seeds taken from packages with low vitality will vary much in 

 different tests, but good fresh seeds run high and quite uniform. 

 Good seeds will stand the most abuse. 



Will Seeds Sprout More Thau Ouce? — It is tlie opinion of 

 many that seeds once sprouted and well dried will never sprout 

 again. "To sprout" means "to germinate/' "to vegetate," 

 " to begin to grow," "to shoot, as the seed or the root of a 

 plant." In each of the cases considered the roots died at the 

 end of each test, and new ones pushed out when moistened. 

 The same 2)liLmule lived over, or endured all the changes. 

 Wheat and rye and oats will start to grow after drying for several 

 times, often for six or more times. 



