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We would remark upon these results, that the 

 temperature of the house was kept at between 60° and 

 70°, and the greater part of the seeds came up in 

 four days; the numbers for the days, then, have 

 reference to the time occupied before all that would 

 germinate came up. Now this table is not a little 

 instructive, as showing that samples of turnip-seed 

 can be got in which only a very few of the seeds fail 

 to germinate ; but as experience had taught us that 

 these samples by no means represented the usual 

 market condition of turnip-seeds, in order to test this 

 we begged to be allowed permission to take samples 

 direct from the bags of a retail seedsman as they 

 were exposed in his shop, and the following results 

 will speak for themselves. 



It should, however, be here premised that the 

 samples were not grown by the seedsman, but were 

 said to be just as received from the wholesale dealers. 



Table 2. — Germination of Ten Sorts of Turnip Seeds from Market 

 Samples. 



No. 



Copy of Label. 



Came up 

 percent. 



No. of 

 Days. 



Norfolk Green round 



White Globe 



Early Grey-topped Stone .. 

 Red Tankard, or Pudding .. 



Orange Jelly 



Norfolk Bound Red 



Purple-topped yellow Scotch 



White Dutch 



Early Green top 



Yellow Tankard Pudding .. 



Came up 



Failed 



Taken from 

 the bags by 

 the Author. 



