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reality as regards the yield it was the cheaper of 

 the two. (Dicksons & Co., Edinburgh.) 



Foreign seed from three collectors in 1879 and 

 1880 cost iios., 175s., and 198s. per cwt, all clean 

 seed. Home seed from five collectors in same season 

 cost IIOS., 120s., 1 30s., 1 30s., 140s. per cwt., and, 

 as usual with home seed, it was very dirty. Of the 

 five named above, that at 1 20s. produced us double the 

 seedlings per pound of any other. (Thomas Kennedy 

 & Co., Dumfries.) 



7. Give any other distinguishing features observable 

 in the two, and anything more or less favourable in 

 the one than in the other. 



From the foreGjoimr it will be seen that the foreisfu 

 seedling is much more tender than the home, but if in 

 favourable seasons it escapes injury from frost for two 

 seasons and is then transplanted, it appears in all re- 

 spects to be as hardy as the home, and there appears 

 to be no appreciable difference in the plants. In a 

 severe frost as large a proportion as nine in ten of the 

 foreim seedlingjs are rendered useless, while seldom 

 over one in ten of the home suffers. (John Methven, 

 Edinburgh.) 



We believe plants from native seed are the best for 

 nurserymen, being much hardier, and seldom damaged 

 by frosts in the seed-bed or nursery lines ; foreign 

 larch, however, after six years old, gets acclimatised 

 and hardier, and with difficulty can be distinguished 

 from home. (B. Eeid & Co., Aberdeen.) 



