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GERMINATION 



Elberfeld 



Ems 



Erfurt 



Essen 



Frankfort-on-the-Main 



Frankfort-on-the-Oder 



Halle 



Hamburg 



Heidelberg 



Jena 



Karlsruhe 



Kiel 



Konigsberg 



Krefeld 



Leipzig 



Liibeck 



Ludwigshafen 



Magdeburg 



Mainz 



Mannheim 



Metz 



Munich 



MUnster 



Nuremberg 



Oberammergau 



OsnabrUck 



Posen 



Potsdam 



Ratisbon 



Rostock 



Stettin 



Strassburg 



Stuttgart 



Ulm 



Wiesbaden 



Wittenberg 



Worms 



Wiirzburg 



COLONIES 

 See list in article above. 



Augsburg Confession 

 Balance of Power 

 Berlin, Congress of 

 Counter-Reformation 

 Elector, German 



Imperial 



Franco-German War 

 Free Cities 

 Golden Bull 

 Hanseatic League 

 Hessians 

 Hohenstaufen 

 Hohenzollern 

 Holy Alliance 

 Holy Roman Empire 



Much of the history of the country is contained 

 in the articles on the rulers or other distinguished 

 men : 



Liitzen, Battles of 

 Peasants' War 

 Reformation 

 Sadowa, Battle of 

 Schmalkaldic League 

 Seven Weeks' War 

 Seven Years' Wai- 

 Succession Wars 

 Thirty Years' War 

 Trent, Council of 

 Triple Alliance 

 Vienna, Congress of 

 War of the Nations 

 Zollverein 



Bethmann-Hollweg 

 Bismarck-Schonhausen, 



Prince 



Bliicher, Gebhard von 

 Biilow, Prince von 

 Charlemagne 

 Charles 



Ferdinand I and II 

 Frederick I, Barbarossa 

 Frederick I, II and III 

 Frederick William I, 



III and IV 



Henry III, IV and VI 

 Hindenburg, Marshal 



von 



Louis, the German 

 Luther, Martin 

 Maximilian I 

 Moltke, Count von 

 Stein, Baron von 

 Tilly, Count of 

 Wallenstein, Duke of 

 William I and II 



ISLANDS 



Admiralty Ladrone 



Bismarck Archipelago New Guinea 

 Helgoland Samoa 



Alps 



Black Forest 



Harz 



Danube 



Elbe 



Main 



Moselle 



Oder 



MOUNTAINS 



Jura 



Riesen-Gebirge 



Vosges 



RIVERS 



Rhine 

 Spree 

 Vistula 

 Weser 



Alsace-Lorraine 



Baden 



Bavaria 



Brandenburg 



Brunswick 



Hanover 



Hesse 



Mecklenburg-Schwerin 



Oldenburg 



Palatinate 



Pomerania 



Posen 



Prussia 



Saxony 



Schleswig-Holsteln 



Silesia 



Wurttemberg 



GERMINATION, jermina'shun, the process 

 by which the germ of a plant organism begins 

 to develop into a perfect plant. The term is 

 derived from the Latin germen, meaning bud, 

 and is often used interchangeably with sprout- 

 ing. The miracle 

 of growth the 

 emergence of a 

 tender green 

 shoot from the 

 moist, warm earth 

 in the spring 

 time, after the 

 planting of the 

 ripened seed is 

 one of the most 

 familiar and yet 

 one of the most 

 wonderful facts in 

 nature. What has 

 taken place is the 

 awakening to ac- 

 tivity of the germ 

 of life the em- 

 bryo, or inner 

 kernel, of the 

 seed. The em- 

 bryo is itself a 

 miniature plant, 

 and in many cases 

 it has a fairly definite set of organs a little 

 point at one end called the hypocotyl, which 

 is a rudimentary stem; one or two seed leaves, 

 called cotyledons; and a plumule, or seed bud. 

 See SEEDS. 



There are three conditions which are neces- 

 sary for the sprouting of a seed. These are 

 warmth, moisture and a supply of oxygen. 

 Different plants vary in their temperature 

 requirements, and the farmer must learn by 

 experience when to sow the various grains and 

 vegetables. Corn planted too soon will decay 

 in the ground, but peas can safely be sown not 

 long after the soil is free from frost. The fol- 

 lowing table shows the temperatures required 

 by a few well-known plants; the degrees are on 

 the Fahrenheit scale: 



GERMINATION 

 Two stages in the growth 

 of the bean. (a) Taproot; 

 (b) hypocotyl (the portion of 

 the stem below the cotyle- 

 don) ; (cc) the cotyledon. 



