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siderable advantage over the earlier ones, at any rate as far as 

 the third runners. The variety investigated was Profit, the 

 number of runners used being 800. The relative crops during 

 five seasons were 



ist, 2nd, $rd, ^th, $th runners. 

 Crops per plant . 100 206 418 355 491 



GERMINATION OF FRUIT SEEDS (Reports, I, 160 ; II, 210) 



Some questions connected with the germination of seeds from 

 different-sized fruits, and from cells containing different numbers 

 of seeds, were examined in 1896, '97 and '98, crab apples, cultivated 

 apples and pears being used for the purpose. It was found that 

 the size of the fruits from which the seeds were derived had no 

 influence on the germinative capacity of these seeds; thus in 

 1898 the percentage germinations were 



From Large, Medium, Small Fruits. 



46 32 38 per cent. 



showing no relationship between size and germination ; and 

 similar results were obtained in the other seasons. 



In the same way it was found that the number of seeds per 

 cell did not affect the germinative power of the seeds, the 

 average percentage of germinations from the one-seed cells and 

 two-seed cells being 21 and 23, respectively. 



POTATOES (Reports, I, 150 ; II, 228) 



One or two points connected with potato-growing were inves- 

 tigated in some seasons at Woburn. In one instance the influence 

 on the crop of the date of the sowing was examined ; and in that 

 ease, the trials were made with seven different main-crop varieties 

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