74 CONTROL SERIES No. 96 



Type and Variety Studies of Vegetables 



Conducted in Conjunction with the Department of Vegetable Gardening, 

 Professor Grant B. Snyder 



Many home gardeners purchase their vegetable seeds either in packets or bulk 

 lots from the neighborhood store. The quality of such seed is therefore of definite 

 importance to a large number of people. 



In order to check on the performance of seed purchased from these sources 

 253 samples of seed were tested in the field and observations recorded on germina- 

 tion and trueness- to-type for a total of 120 samples, the other 133 having been 

 entirely washed out by heavy rains or damaged to such an extent as to render 

 judgment of performance unreliable. 



The kinds of seed tested this year by the Department of Vegetable Gardening 

 were beets, peas, beans, radish, carrots, swiss chard, parsnips, lettuce, endive, 

 onions, spinach and salsify. In general the germination in the field and the 

 performance of the individual lots were satisfactory. A few lots showed poor 

 germination and a small percentage were variable in type. 



In the following report no record is shown for germination since field records 

 corresponded very closely with the Seed Laboratory tests, which are recorded 

 elsewhere in this publication. In performance the percentages listed mean the 

 actual number of plants that were within the type range and developed for the 

 variety in question a reasonably satisfactory plant. 



