SEED INSPECTION 



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The seeds were sown between June 13 and 24, the delay being caused by 

 weather conditions which made it impossible to get the seeds into the ground in 

 a shorter period. The first killing frost occurred on September 30 but many of 

 the hardy annuals were not seriously injured by frost until October 26. Total 

 rainfall for the months of June, July, August, and September in 1941 was 14.84 

 inches as compared with 10.24 inches in 1940, 12.73 inches in 1939, and 32.49 

 inches in 1938. The normal rainfall for this period of four months is 16.19 inches. 1 



Lab. 



No. 



FLOWER SEED INSPECTION 



Kind and Variety of Seed, Wholesale Dis- 

 tributor, Dealer When Other Than Whole- 

 sale Distributor, and Place Collected 



Germi- 

 nation 



Field Tests 



Performance 



AGERATUM 



THOMAS W. EMERSON CO., Boston, Mass. 

 99F Blue Perfection Good Satisfactory 



FREDONIA SEED CO., Fredonia, N. Y. 



371F Blue Fa,r Satisfactory 



George E. Warren, Hardware, Braintree 



CHARLES C. HART SEED CO., Wethersfield, Conn 



889F Blue Perfection Good Satisfactory 



The Welch Co., Scituate 



NEW ENGLAND TORO CO., West Newton, Mass. 

 166F Blue Perfection Good Satisfactory 



STERLING SEED CO., Minneapolis, Minn. 



830F Dwarf Blue Fair Satisfactory 



McLellan's Store Co., Great Barnngton 



THORNTON & CROUCH, Lawrence, Mass. 

 313F Gold Medal Good Satisfactory 



ALONSOA— Maskflower 



JOSEPH BRECK & SONS, Boston, Mass. - 



474F Alonsoa Mutise — Salmon Orange Poor Not Satisfactory 



ALYSSUM 



EMPIRE SEED CO., Fredonia, N. Y. , 



inQ7F Onld I Dust Good Not satisfactory — about 



J097F Gold D^t Flower g hop; ^^ 25% Sweet Alyssum 



MANDEVILLE, KING & CO., Rochester, N. Y. 



754F Snow Cloth Good SaUsfactory 



Frank Harkins, East Milton 



THE PAGE SEED CO., Greene, N. Y. r„^.„™ 



229F Sweet Poor Not Satisfactory 



J. H. Fairbanks Co., Bridgewater 



PERRY SEED CO., Boston, Mass. 

 735F Carpet of Snow Good Satisfactory 



J. B. RICE, JR., INC., Shushan, N. Y. 



1048F Little Gem Good Satisfactory 



Fred F. Smith, Inc., Reading 



ANAGALLIS 



JOSEPH BRECK & SONS, Boston, Mass. ,«,„♦„„, 



484F Anagallis-Pimpernel, Gentian Blue Good Satisfactory 



MANDEVILLE, KING & CO., Rochester, N. Y ' 



936F Anagallis, Scarlet and other colors Good Satisfactory 



Vanderhoof Hardware Co., Concord 



iData on precipitation and frosts were taken from the monthly bulletins, "Meteorological Ob- 

 servations," of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. 



