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Weight and Size of Garden Seeds, continued. 



Weight of a qt. of Number of seeds 



seeds in ozs. in i grain. 



Tomato 11.65 19.44 to 25.92 



Turnip 26.02 29.16 



Valerian, African 4.27 16.20 



Watermelon 17.86 3.24 to 3.88 in 10 g. 



Wax Gourd 11.65 1.36 



Welsh Onion, Common 18.64 19.44 



Early White. . .22.91 32.40 



Wormwood 25.24 745.20 



3. Number of Tree^Seeds in a Pound. 



FRUIT TREES. 



About. 



Apple 12,000 



Cherry Pits 1,000 



Peach 200 



Pear 15,000 



Plum 600 



Quince 15,000 



Mulberry 200,000 



FOREST TREES. 



By count. 



Butternut Juglans cinerea 15 



Black Walnut Juglans nigra 25 



American Horse-Chestnut . . ^sculus glabra 36 



Hickory (Shell-Bark) Carya alba 78 



American Sweet Chestnut . . Castanea vesca 90 



Silver-Leaved Maple Acer dascycarpum .... 2,421 



Honey-Liocust Gleditschia triacanthos . 2,496 



Black Cherry Prunus serotina ..... 4,31 1 



Black Ash Fraxinus sambucifolia . . 5,629 



American Basswood Tilia Americana 6,387 



Norway Maple Acer platanoides 7,231 



Sugar Maple Acer saccharinum .... 7,488 



Barberry Berberis vulgaris .... 8,183 



Red Cedar Juniperus Virginiana . . 8,321 



Rock Elm Ulmus racemosa 8,352 



American White Ash Fraxinus Americana. . . 9,858 



