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SEED-TABLES 



Longevity of Seeds — Continued 



Rye 



Sage 



Salsify 



Savory, summer .... 



Savory, winter 



Scorzonera 



Scurvy-grass 



Sea-kale 



Soybean 



Spinach, prickly-seeded . . 

 Spinach, round-seeded 

 Spinach, New Zealand . . 

 Squash, bush-scallop . 



Strawberry 



Strawberry, tomato (Physalis) 



Sweet Cicely 



Tansv 



Thyme 



Timothy 



Tomato 



Turnip 



Valerian, African .... 



Watermelon 



Wax gourd 



Welsh onion, common . . 

 Welsh onion, early white 



Wheat 



W'ormwood 



Haberlandt's figures of longevity (Quoted in Johnson's " How Crops 



Grow ") 



Vitality of seeds buried in soil (W. J. Beal). 



In the fall of 1879, fifty fresh seeds of each of twenty-one kinds of 

 plants (mostly weeds) were mixed with moderately moist sand and placed 

 in uncorked bottles that were buried twenty inches below the surface, 

 with the mouths slanting downward. Acorns were buried near the 

 bottles. Six tests have been made of these seeds. The crosses (-h) 

 indicate germinations : — 



