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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Table IV. — Showing the Effects of Asparagin Solutions upon the 

 Germination of Buckivheat Seeds (Fagopyrum esculentum 

 Moeuch) . 



STRENGTH OF SOLUTION. 



Pbbckntagb of Gebmination (in Days). 



Normal, . 

 3 per ceut., , 

 1 per cent , , 

 .5 per cent., . 

 .25 percent., . 

 .1 per cent., . 



Normal average (per cent.) 71.0 



Asparagin average (percent.), 81.6 



No change in the results were shown when experiment 

 was allowed to remain two days longer. 



Table V. — Shoioing the Effects of Asparagin Solutions upon 

 Germination of Serradella Seeds (^Ornithopus sativus). 



the 



STRENGTH OF SOLUTION. 



Percentage of Germination (in Days). 



(24 Hours). 



Normal, . 

 2 per cent., . 

 1 per cent., 

 .5 per cent , . 

 .25 per cent.,. 

 .1 per cent., , 



Normal average (per cent.) 55.0 



Asparagin average (per cent.), 74.8 



The seeds in this experiment failed to germinate farther 

 than shown in the table. Another experiment showed a cor- 

 responding acceleration, and at the end of fifteen days, when 

 no more seed would germinate, the normal gave 54 per 

 cent, and the treated averaged 79 per cent. One experi- 

 ment with asparagus seed showed an acceleration through- 

 out, and gave for the normal 40 per cent. , while the treated 

 was 45 per cent., — a gain of little consequence. 



