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demonstrating the progress made in the collecting of forest seeds 

 and their treatment during the germinating process, as well as the 

 significance of the fact that the price of the seed varies with its 

 real value, and finally what an immense support the seed tests 

 are to the forest seed trade. I took the opportunity of illustrating 

 this in my two essays : Geholzsamen-Untersuchungen in der Saison 

 190203 and 190304, which appeared in the Transactions of the 

 Deutsche Dendrologische Gesellschaft 1903 and 1904 and in separate 

 reprints. I should like to reproduce here something from them: 



In the season 1901 02 we had no Sitka Spruce seed at all and 

 in the previous year only very moderate seed with only 45 % 

 real value, so that I was particularly delighted to find seed in 

 1902 03 which had a germinating capacity of 79.2 / and a purity 

 of 95, and consequently a real value of 75.2 %. But one of my 

 customers wrote to me that my price was too high, he could 

 buy plenty of seed for 35/ with a germinating capacity of 60 %. This 

 was quite true; but 35/ for 1 kg of seed with 60 % germinating 

 capacity, means 58/ for 1 kg of germinating seeds. This induced 

 me to cause three Sitka Spruce samples, received during the season, 

 to be tested. Each sample was from one of the oldest established 

 seedsmen in Germany, France and America respectively. The result 

 was as follows: 



Test No. 20736 (Germany) Germ. cap. 68 Real val. 61 % 

 20737 (France) 66 62 % 



20738 (America) 37 19 % 



Comparing now the germinating capacity with the prices at 

 which the seed was offered for sale, the following price per kg 

 of germinating seeds is obtained: 



Germinating- Price per kg Price per kg 

 capacity seed germinating seed 



No. 20736 68 % 35.00 51.47 



20737 66 % 37.00 56.06 



20738 37 % 30.30 81.89 



In the experiment report of the year in question, which was 

 published at the same time, my Sitka seed from the State of 

 Washington proved a germination of 79 %, and as the price for 1 kg 

 of seed was 37.80, the price for 1 kg germinating seeds was only 47.85. 



