28 CONTROL SERIES NO. 171 



FIELD TESTS OF VEGETABLE SEEDS 

 TYPE AND VARIETY^STUDIES— SECTION 261 H 



Conducted by the Seed Laboratory* 



Again this year, the twenty-first year, field trials were conducted by the Seed 

 Laboratory to determine the trueness-to-type of certain kinds of vegetable seed 

 offered for sale in the State. Tests were run on Radish and Cucumbers from a col- 

 lection made by the State Seed Inspectors. These samples were taken from 67 retail 

 establishments and represent the ofi"erings of 28 wholesale seedsmen in the State. 



Seventy-three lots of Radish and 102 lots of Cucumbers were sampled throughout 

 the Commonwealth by the State Seed Inspectors. All were given laboratory ger- 

 mination tests, but only 69 Radish and 51 Cucumber lots were field-tested. Four 

 radishes were duplicated lots, and only the following six varieties of Cucumbers were 

 field-tested: Marketer, Improved Long Green, Straight Eight, Niagara, White Spine, 

 and Wis. SMR 12. 



The radish were planted June 8. Each lot was a ten-foot row, with the rows three 

 feet apart. All lots were duplicated at random in the field, and for each variety in 

 the trials an authentic check sample was also duplicated at random in the field. 



The cucumbers were planted June 11 in rows six-feet apart with the plants two- 

 feet apart in the row. Again all lots were duplicated at random with authentic 

 check samples for each variety. 



No lots of cucumbers were found to disagree with the variety name as stated on 

 the label or packet; however, once again the desirability of the different lots of the 

 same variety names was quite evident. However, since it is not the function or 

 policy of the Seed Laboratory to place ratings on the field tests, no report is made 

 on this factor. 



Below listed are the lots of radish seed which were found not to conform to the 

 name as stated on the packages. 



Table 4 



Wholesale Distributor, Variety of Seed and 

 Lab. Kind of Lot Number, Dealer When Other than Whole- Remarks 



No. Seed sale Distributor, and Place Collected 



Charles C. Hart Seed Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn. 



E. C. Addis & Co., Florence 



375 Radish Ea. White Tipped Scarlet 9% Off-type, and 9%-2/3 



White 



Corr.stock, Ferre & Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn. 



City Pet Shop, Fall River 

 524 Radish Ea. Scarlet Glibe 30% Sparkler 



Joseph Sordillo & Son, Boston, Mass. 



1070 Radish Red "Red' is not a Variety name. 



Appears to be Ea. Scarlet 

 Globe 



* Waldo C. Lincoln. Jr., Research Instructor 

 Paul Korpita, Laboratory Assistant 



