SXPERIMDNTS IN PRACTICAI< HORTICULTURE. 



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vania, and Russia ; while one lot from England and that from 

 Denmark were specially low in vitality. Seed from Brittany 

 showed a high percentage of germination (sprouting) at Wash- 

 ington, but was rather low both in the blotting paper and in the 

 soil tests at the Station. Of the American seed tested, that from 

 Ohio and Illinois were, in this trial, the strongest. 



Results of Germination Tests. 



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 10965 

 10990 

 1179] 

 11813 

 12010 

 12090 

 12165 

 12169 

 12170 

 12171 

 12172 

 12173 

 12174 

 12175 

 1218H 

 12223 

 12540 

 12541 

 12635 

 12663 

 12664 

 12665 

 12666 

 12667 

 1266S 

 12669 

 12670 



Oregon 



Tennessee 



Missouri 



Iowa 



M ichigan 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Russia 



Brittany 



England 



Denmark 



New Zealand 



England 



Bohemia 



Nebraska 



Wisconsin 



Russia 



Minnesota 



Italy 



Upper Austria 



Silesia 



Hungarian Mountain Region 



Styria 



Galizia 



Hungarian Plains 



Bohemia 



Hungarian Transylvania 



89 



90 



41 



89 



93 



40 



95 



97 



25 



93 



84 



37 



95 



95 



49 



93 



97 



47 



96 



90 



35 



- 



93 



33 



91 



93 



55 



96 



72 



27 



81 



71 



13 



96 



92 



17 



77 



72 



27 



78 



95 



49 



96 



93 



34 



80 



71 



19 



92 



94 



71 



96 



91 



45 



94 



92 



51 



88 



90 



29 



97 



94 



75 



88 



89 



77 



95 



94 



57 



91 



93 



78 



85 



89 



77 



97 



85 



81 



95 



80 



33 



95 



92 



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30 

 33 



60 

 35 

 75 

 80 

 40 

 34 

 20 

 40 



38 

 64 

 80 

 60 

 35 

 83 

 48 

 80 

 85 

 40 

 42 

 45 

 70 



The above facts are presented for consideration. Only the 

 most general inferences can be drawn, however, from a single 

 sample, or even from two or three samples from any given 

 source. 



'eith'D WORK, 1902. 



Duplicate plats of twenty-nine different lots of seed were sown. 

 May 19, on plats of two square rods each, at the rate of 12 

 pounds standard seed per acre. The location of the plats has a 

 slightly northeastern aspect. The soil is a rich sandy loam, with 

 a strong clay subsoil. A crop of buckwheat was grown upon 



