32 



CONTROL SERIES NO. 167 



Table 5. Flower Seed Inspection 



Lab. 



No. 



Kind of 

 Seed 



Labora- 

 Wholesale Distributor, Dealer When tory 



Other Than Wholesale Distributor, Germi- 



Place Collected and Variety of Seed nation 



% 



Field Tests 

 Performance 



194 Petunia 



797 Petunia 



Joseph Breck & Sons, Inc., Boston, Mass. 



Single Fringed Flame 



W. Aflee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Needham Hardware Co., Needham 

 Blue, Pink & White 



Chas. C. Hart Seed Co., Wethersfield, Ct. 



Sherman Hardware & Paint Co., Somerville 

 Blue Perfection 



Finest Dwarf Mixed 



Taunton Hardware Co., Taunton 

 Blue Perfection 



Budd D. Hawkins, Reading, Vt. 



David Dickson, Groton 



Dwarf Mixed 



Hygrade Seed Co., Fredonia, N. Y. 



Hugo A. Dubuge, Fall River 

 Double & Single Mix 



Mandeville & King Co., Rochester, N. Y. 



G. F. Bunker Co., Brighton 

 Shirley, Double Rose Pink 



Crowley Hardware Co., Everett 

 Double and Single Moss Rose. 



Northrup, King «& Co., Minneapolis, Minn. 



Danvers Hardware Co., Danvers 



Rosey Morn 



Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, 111. 



Sears, Roebuck & Co., Cambridge 

 Giant Branching Blue 



Vaughan's Seed Store, New York, N. Y. 



Miller Florest, Arlington 



Peppermint Stick Mix 



C. H. Symmes & Co., Winchester 

 Dwarf Double French 



Woodruff's Triple "T" Seed Co., Wethers- 

 field, Ct. 



Camellia Flowered 



76 50% ofiF-type (Purple color) 



60 No Blue found in sample j 



56 100% dwarf type 



23 Too few plants for a per- ] 

 formance test 



26 100%, dwarf type 



88 11% not dwarf 



88 90% single 



86 9% single or White 



81 75% single 



69 Mixture of 4 types 



8S 14% Red 



87 13% showed no signTof 

 Peppermint Stick striping. 



92 20% single flowered 



97 50% not Camellia flowered 



