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In the laboratory, Early Orange, Link's Hybrid, Collier's, Planter's 

 Friend, and Colman Cane all far exceeded in the earlier any results 

 reached with them in the later planting. Late Orange showed no very 

 great difference in either. Of the whole number of varieties, only one, 

 Sterling Lot No. 161, gave better chemical returns in its plat of the 

 later series than in that of the first. 



Agriculturally, the plats of the second planting were much better 

 than those of the first, not so much, however, in the size of the canes pro- 

 duced as in their greater regularity of development, evenness of stand, 

 and better form. Varieties of either planting, when derived from the 

 same 1890 stock, showed no marked difference in size between mature 

 canes. 





TABLE I. Highest three single canes of each plat in sucrose and in purity, for the year 



1891. 



In Table I, foregoing, are given the best three single stalk -juice 

 analyses, in sucrose and purity, of each plat, disregarding whether or 

 not. the same cane exhibited both the best sucrose and the best purity, 

 a coincidence not very frequent. The table is chiefly interesting as 

 showing the maximum attained by each plat, but although of a certain 

 value also in comparing the various stocks, it can not be made a basis 

 of any sound deductions as to their actual merits. Principal depend- 



