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Table 5 — Continued 

 Field Test Performances of Flower Seed Lots Tested and Found 

 Unsatisfactory in some Respects, Amherst, Mass., 1958 



,,., , , Labora- 



\v holesale Distributor, Dealer When tory 



Lab. Kind of Other Than Wholesale Distributor, Germi- Field Test 



No. Seed Place Collected and Variety of Seed nation Performance 



% 



\'anderhoof Hardware Co., Concord 

 A-1 70 Mixture Annual Flower Garden Mix 15 genera found. 



Budd D. Hawkins Co., Wethersfield, 

 Conn. 



Lamson's, Inc., Marlboro 

 A-186 Calendula Orange King 25 Satisfactory.** 



C-305 Mixture Wild Flower Garden Mi.\- 15 genera found. 



Mandeville & King Co., Rochesler, N. Y. 



Fiske Corp., Natick 

 A-136 Zinnia Peppermint Stick 81 Only 5 9^ with striping. 



The Pet Shop, Fall River 

 C-270 Mixture The Wonder Packet 17 genera found. 



L. Richmond & Co., Brockton 

 .•\-5 Calendula Orange King 25 Satisfactory.** 



^^'hite Hardware Co., Framingham 

 A-141 Zinnia Polka Giant Peppermint Stick 87 Only 45% with striping. 



Northrup. King & Co., Minneapolis, 

 Minn. 



Central Hardware Co., Fitchburgh 

 A-239 Zinnia Cherry Sunday 80 75% red type. 



F. W. Woolworth & Co., Hyannis 

 A-235 Mixture Old Fashioned Garden 24 genera found. 



F. W. Woolworth & Co., Natick 

 A-129 Zinnia Peppermint Stick 70 Only 50% with striping. 



F. W. Woolworth & Co., Plymouth 



A-96 Celosia Tall Red Shades 61 2% orange; 2% plumosa type; 



25% dwarf. 



The Page Seed Co., Greene, N. Y. 



Lynde Hardware Co., Gardner 



A-310 Zinnia Fantasy 65 Package shows a mixture but 



not so labeled. 



Pelletized Seed Co., New York. N. Y. 



F. W. Woolworth & Co., Attleboro 

 A-1 16 Calendula Double Mix 28 Satisfactory.** 



F. W. Woolworth & Co., Worcester 

 A-265 Zinnia Lilliput Mix 91 50% magenta & lavender. 



Jerome B. Rice Seed Co., Cambridge. 

 N. Y. 



Boston Supply Co., Framingham 

 A-139 Mixture Old Fashion Garden Mixture 12 genera found. 



Toabes Hardware Co., Marshfield 



A-93 Iberis Mixed 67 Mixture of 5 colors, but 50% 



were light lavender. 



J. B. Rice Seed Co.. Shushan, N. Y. 



A-305 Zinnia \'illage Hardware Co., Athol 



California Giants Mixed 77 90% crimson color and 



luminous type. 



Ross Bros. Co , Worcester, Mass. 



C-336 .\geratum Mixed colors 83 95% blue perfection. 



Scars, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, III. 



Sears, Roebuck & Co.. Cambridge 

 A-209 Mixture Old Fashioned Garden Mixture 13 genera found. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, New York, N. Y. 

 Tom Irwin Rowley 

 A-318 Calendula Sensation Orange 30 4% yellow. 



