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The Horticulturist' s Rule- Book. 



Weight and Size of Garden Seeds, continued. 



Weight of a litre of Number of seeds 

 seeds in grammes. in i gramme. 



Spinach, Prickly-seeded 375 90 



" Round-seeded 510 no 



11 New Zealand 225 iotoi2 



Squash, Bush-scallop 430 10 



Strawberry 600 800 to 2, 500 



Elite (Blitum) 800 5,000 



Tomato (Phy satis] 650 1,000 



Sweet Cicely 250 40 



Tansy 300 7, ooo 



Thyme 680 6, ooo 



Tomato 300 300 to 400 



Turnip 670 450 



Valerian, African no 250 



Watermelon 460 5 or 6 



Wax Gourd 300 2 1 



Welsh Onion, Common 480 300 



" Early White 590 500 



Wormwood 650 1 1 , 500 



3. Number of Tree Seeds in a Pound. 



FRL.T TREES. 



About 

 Apple 12,000 



Cherry Pits i , ooo 



Peach 200 



Pear 15,000 



Plum 600 



Quince 15,000 



Mulberry *. 200, ooo 



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 



