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THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE 



same price. Such people can, it is true, warrant 

 their seeds to be genuine, as they well know how 

 much turnip-seeds deteriorate by keeping; the mixing 

 of this with good seed is still a species of adultera- 

 tion ; and if not mixed at all, we can then only say 

 that the evil is so much the greater. 



As an evidence of the amount of deterioration 

 caused to turnip-seeds by keeping, we here re-produce 

 the table of trials of ten sorts of good seeds made in 

 September, 18G0, in contrast with experiments from 

 the same sample, in the same month of the present 

 year (1862), premisiog that the samples were kept in 

 what we should consider a dry but not too warm a 

 temperature. 



[Table G. — Germination of Ten Sorts of Turnips. 



These figures are interesting as showing that though 

 the different sorts are not affected equally, yet the 

 seed of 1859 failed on the average to the extent of 



