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In the case of the ATLAS CEDAR the three annual sets 190809 

 to 1910 11 show that low seed weight is accompanied by low 

 germinating capacity. The years 190607 and 191112 with high 

 seed weight and high germinating capacity are normal, while on 

 the other hand, 1905 06, with the highest found seed weight and 

 the lowest germinating capacity again upsets the theory. 



With the LEBANON CEDAR the highest found weight again 

 corresponds, as it should, with the highest germinating capacity. 



The HIMALAYAN CEDAR also shows that high seed weight 

 has accompanied good germinating capacity, while on the other 

 hand seed of the 1902 crop, after it had been stored by me for a 

 year, lost seriously in weight and germinating power. 



LARCH 



THE COMMON LARCH LARIX EUROP^EA. With this seed it 

 is now much easier and pleasanter to deal than it was in the 

 past. Let us take some of the most striking figures out of the 23 

 tests on Tyrolese seed: 



Germination in per cent after 5 10 20 30 40 days 



189495 4 61 



189596 5 29 64 



190506 26 36 36 



190607 1 27 38 



190708 1 47 54 



190809 21 31 



190910 31 51 53 



191011 12 39 42 



1911 12 Lot I 35 51 51 



191112 Lot II 23 57 57 



One is immediately struck by the fact that, while sixteen years 

 ago it required 40 days to attain the final result, ten years later 

 half this period was sufficient, and the season 1911 12 showed 

 the best result of the whole twenty-five years, as both samples 

 had completed their germination in 10 days. 



In the table of average figures, it will be found that Common 

 Larch from different districts (places of origin) is compared. 

 Swiss seed (from the Engadine) seems to have the largest grains, 

 but the number of samples is too small to establish this with 

 certainty. The seed from Silesia deserves no particular notice, for 



