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SEED-TABLES 



Longevity of Seeds Continued 



Rye 2 



Sage 3 



Salsify 2 



Savory, summer 



Savory, winter 



Scorzonera . . . 2 



Scurvy-grass 4 



Sea-kale 1 



Soybean 



Spinach, prickly-seeded 5 



Spinach, round-seeded 5 



Spinach, New Zealand 5 



Squash, bush-scallop 6 



Strawberry 3 



Strawberry, tomato (Physalis) 8 



Sweet Cicely 1 



Tansy 2 



Thyme 3 



Timothy 2 



Tomato 4 



Turnip 5 



Valerian, African 4 



Watermelon 6 



Wax gourd 10 



Welsh onion, common 2 or 3 



Welsh onion, early white 3 



Wheat 2 



Wormwood . 4 



AVERAGE 

 YEARS 



EXTREME 

 YEARS 



7 



8 ' 



7 



6 



7 



7 



7 



6 



7 



7 



8 

 10 + 



6 

 10 + 



4 

 7 



9 

 10 + 



10 + 



10 + 



7 

 8 

 7 + 



H aberlandC s figures of longevity (Quoted in Johnson's " How Crops 



Grow") 



PERCENTAGE or SEEDS THAT GERMINATED IN 1861 FROM THE YEARS 



1850 



1851 



1854 1855 



1857 



1858 1859 



1860 



Barley 

 Maize 

 Oats . 

 Rye . 



Whe'at 





 



60 

 

 







not tried 

 

 

 



24 



76 



56 







8 





 56 



48 

 

 4 



48 



not tried 



72 







73 



33 



77 



32 







60 



92 



100 



80 



48 

 84 



97 



96 



100 



96 



Vitality of seeds buried in soil (W. J. Beal). 



In the fall of 1879, fifty fresh seeds of each of twenty-one kinds of 

 plants (mostly weeds) were mixed with moderately moist sand and placed 

 in uncorked bottles that were buried twenty inches below the surface, 

 with the mouths slanting downward. Acorns were buried near the 

 bottles. Six tests have been made of these seeds. The crosses ( + ) 

 indicate germinations : 



