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PRINCIPLES OF GARDENING. 



[CH. I. 



alike throughout their growth, were about a fortnight 

 differing in all their stages of vegetation. 



Sown In bloom Gathered from 



Cormack's Prince 



Albert . . Jan. 4. April 1. May 14- 



Warwick . Jan. 4. April 13. May -28. 



Adanson found that, under the most favourable 

 circumstances, various garden seeds might be made 

 to germinate in the following veiy different spaxies of 

 time. 



Spinach, Beans, Mustard . 3 days. 



Lettuce, Aniseed .... 4 



Melon, Cucumber, Cress . 5 



Eadish, Beet 6 



Orache 8 



Purslain 9 



Cabbage 10 



Hyssop 30 



Parsley 40 or 50 do. 



Almond, Chesnut, Peach . 1 year. 



Rose, Hawthorn, Filbert . 2 do.^ 



In one instance M. Adanson certainly must have 

 experimented with old seed, for I have fomid good 

 new parsley seed, sown on fresh fertile soil in May, 

 had germinated in two days, and its leaves were 

 above the surface within a week from the day of 

 " Families des Plantes, i. 85. 



