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This table must be used only as a guide, as the figures vary 

 so much under different conditions. 



The price of seed given above is taken from two catalogues 

 for 1910, one set from an English price list, and the other 

 from a foreign list ; the cost of carriage would have to be 

 added to the price of the foreign seed. The price varies from 

 year to year according to the crop. Seed can often be col- 

 lected in the home woods much more cheaply ; beech mast, 

 for instance, can be collected for 4^. per pound, and acorns for 

 id. per pound. 



The number of seeds in one pound, and the germinative 

 percentages vary considerably according to the quality of the 



