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SEED-TABLES 



Weight and size of garden seeds — Continued 



Peanut 



Pepper 



Pumpkin 



Purslane 



Radish 



Rampion 



Rhubarb 



Rocket Salad 



Rosemary 



Rue 



Sage 



Salsify 



Savory, summer .... 



Savory, winter 



Scorzonera 



Scurvy-grass 



Sea-kale 



Spinach, prickly-seeded . . 

 Spinach, round-seeded . . 

 Spinach, New Zealand 



Strawberry 



Strawberry blite (Blitum) . 

 Strawberry tomato (Physalis) 



Sweet Cicely 



Tansy 



Thyme 



Tomato 



Turnip 



Valerian, African .... 



Watermelon 



Wax gourd 



Welsh onion, common . . 

 Welsh onion, early white . 

 Wormwood 



Figures of Germination and Purity 



Seed testing. 



The testing of seeds is of two purposes, — to determine whether 

 the sample is adulterated, and to determine the viability or germi- 

 nating power. 



Adulteration or impurity is discovered by examining the sample 

 under a lens. 



Viability is determined by sprouting the seeds under favorable 

 conditions. Mix the sample well, and choose 100 seeds as they come, 

 eliminating only the foreign seeds. Place them between folds of 

 moist Canton flannel, and keep moist (not soaking wet) by covering 



