NovzwBER 23, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
PLANTING SEASON. 
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Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1895. 
THE LATENT VITALITY 
OF SEEDS 
CASIMIR DE CANDOLLE has lately 
* published an interesting paper entitled La 
Vie Latente des Graines (Archives des So. Phys. et 
Nat.; Bibl. Univers., 1895), in which he comes 
to the conclusion that if the external conditions 
n 
having made a preliminary one as follow 
Three lots of Peas and Haricot Beans were 
placed (1) in free air; (2) in а tube of air, but 
sealed; (3) in pure carbonio acid. After two 
years 1) had increased in weight, and aie all 
germinated ; (2) had lost 2 5 ‘while a smaller 
РЕ Ме | germinated ; air now containing 114 
er cent. of oxygen, and 3:8 per cent, of carbonic 
acid; (3) none came up. He asks the * 
perimented with an intensely oo 
having previously determined that Peas, Hari- 
cots, and Fennel seed would germinate after an 
exposure of four days to: a temperature of 148° F. 
up some Wheat, Oats, seeds of 
Fennel, of the Sensitive plant, and of Lobelia 
Erinus in tin foil. All were well packed in a 
cylindrical iron box of 34 cubic feet capacity; 
the lid being hermetically sealed. This 
mittent stream of intensely oold air coming 
irect from the 8 from May to 
September, 1894, or 118 da 
The cold air was continued * eight to twenty 
hours per day; the average time being fourteen 
ours, On the greatest number of occasions 
(sixty-eight times), the cold was prolonged for 
twenty hours. The lowest temperature reached 
was —65° F., and the highest —36° F. 
In the intermediate periods the warming was 
very m scarcely 
freezing-point at the end of two to three hours, 
ас ly, the 
ment in this direction, he pecan filled a 
box with corn, The lid, being hermetically 
cooling varied much according to the initial tem- 
