he had thus had considerable experience of their treatment in the 

 nursery; but there was nothing to guide him when he had to 

 guarantee the quality of the seed he sent out to his customers. It 

 at once became clear to him, that what was wanted was a thor- 

 ough system of seed testing and the adoption of the principle, that 

 all samples of seed that could usually be brought to germination 

 in a seed testing institution, must successfully pass the test before 

 being issued to the nurserymen. He was fortunate in receiving 

 support and encouragement in this from E. M611er-Holst, Director 

 and founder of the Dansk Frokontrolstation (Danish Seed-testing 

 Station), which was established in 1871. Mdller-Holst urged the 

 Author to send as many samples as possible for testing, regardless 

 of expense, because he felt that the experience and information 

 to be gained would be valuable, not only to him, but also to the 

 Seed-testing Establishment itself. Thus the Author was at once 

 placed in a position to obtain an insight into what could be achie- 

 ved in the realm of forest seed by systematic seed testing. 



In the first year a report was issued on 56 tests, which together 

 with an exhibition of tree seeds in the Forestry Section of the 

 Northern Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition in Copenhagen in 

 1888, obtained for his firm the only medal awarded to a Forest 

 Seed Establishment. This award has been followed by many others 

 since, both at home and abroad. 



In the following year appeared Analyseresultater fra 1888 89 

 (Tree-seed Testing 1888 1889), containing the results of 131 germi- 

 nation and seed weight tests on seeds of many different kinds and 

 many different places of origin. 



The Author gratefully remembers the unselfish interest and 

 encouraging influence of E. Moller-Holst, which made it possible 

 for him to obtain so early in his career, such a wide experience 

 and many-sided knowledge of tree seeds. Unhappily Moller-Holst 

 died as early as 1888 and did not live to see the fruits of his la- 

 bour and the subsequent development of the SCANDINAVIAN FO- 

 REST SEED ESTABLISHMENT. After his death the Danish Seed- 

 testing Station became a State institution, which has since grown to 

 such an extent, that in the season 1911 12, for example, it carried 

 out about 12,000 tests on agricultural, garden and forest seeds. 



The germinating apparatus used, the Jacobsen Germinating 

 Apparatus*, is a Danish invention, and is now employed in the seed 



