SEED INSPECTION 



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Results of Inspection and Germination of Vegetable Seeds 

 Sections 261 B2 and 261 C. 



Each separate container of Vegetable Seeds must be labeled to indicate 

 plainly the kind of seed and variety and the name and address of the person who 

 labeled such seed or who sells, offers, or exposes it for sale. For seeds that 

 germinate less than the Massachusetts Standard, the label must also indicate 

 the percentage of germination exclusive of hard seeds, percentage of hard seeds 

 if present, calendar month and year the test was completed, and the words 

 "Below Standard" in not less than 8-point type. Date of test shall not be more 

 than nine months old, exclusive of the month in which the test was completed. 

 Seed that has a false or misleading label may not be sold or offered for sale. 



Four hundred and ninety-one samples of vegetable seeds were received and 

 tested in the laboratory ; however. Table 3 includes only those samples that 

 were found to be mislabeled with regard to requirements of the law. 



The wholesaler's name, in all instances, and the germination for those 

 samples of seed found below standard in germination are in boldface type. In 

 samples for which the found germination is not in boldface, the germination is 

 above standard but below germination stated. 



Table 3 



Wholesale Distributor. Dealer When Other 

 Lab. Kind of Than Wholesale Distributor, Place 

 No. Seed Collected. V'ariety of Seed & Lot Number 



Germination 



Given 



Found 



% 



Date 

 of Test 



Mass. 

 Stand- 

 Month ard 

 of Test % 



W. Allee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, Pennn. 



Taunton State Hosiptal, Taunton 

 C-51 S Bean Bush Bean— Top Crop BP.L 46 70* 12/1957 68 2/1958 75 



Wrentham State School, Wrentham App. 



C-294S Bean Bush Bean— French Horticultural . 89 1/1958 37 4 1958 75 



Clark Hardware Co., Greenfield, Mass. 

 Same 

 B-131 Lettuce Iceheis; 10 :?/1958 80 



Chas. C. Hart Seed Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn. 



Community Feed Store, E Longmeadovv 

 B-117 Bean Bush Lima Fordhook 242, No. 623 . . 85 1/1958 30 4/1958 70 



Federal Suprh Co., C.;eenfield 

 B-68 Lettuce Simpson Early Curled 80 1/1958 73 3 '1958 SO 



Pierce Hardware Co , Taunton 

 C-72 Onion White Globe 70 1/1958 55 3/1958 70 



D. Landreth Seed Co., Philadelphia, 

 Penna. 



Smith Mills Hardware Co., Xo Dart- 

 mouth 



C-309 Kale Dwarf Blue Cu;led Scotch 80 42 5/1958 75 



or better 



Randolph Seed Co., Inc., Randolph, N. Y. 



Lawn & Garden Center. No. Dartmouth 

 C-511 Onion Red Wethersfield 38 7/195S 70 



*Given germination below standard and not declared. 



