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SEEDING AND PLANTING 



33. Germinative Capacity, Germination Number, and 

 Germination Per Cent 



Considerable confusion exists in the use of the terms germina- 

 tive capacity, germination number, and germination per cent. 

 All of these terms have been used by different authors to repre- 

 sent the proportion of germinable seed to the dead kernels. The 

 term germination number is used by Mayr 1 and many other 

 European writers to express this proportion. More recently ger- 

 minative capacity has come into use and has been employed by 



1 Mayr, Heinrich: Waldbau auf naturgesetzlicher Grundlage. S. 367. 

 Berlin, 1909. 



