RADISH 253 
“This table is representative of several similar and concordant 
determinations made but not published. It shows the lower dry- 
matter content of plants grown from large seed. The plants were 
of the same age from seed, but were not of the same degree of 
maturity. Plants grown from small seed were about a week later 
in coming to edible maturity than those grown from large seed. 
It is doubtful if an exact comparison could be made by allowing 
the small seed crop to grow another week, for by so doing changed 
soil and air conditions might intervene. However, the water content 
of a radish is not a matter to cavil about. It is always extremely 
high. Radishes are not eaten for the food they contain, but as a 
relish. Good quality radishes must be rapidly grown, crisp and 
succulent, no matter how high their water content. Aside from size 
as related to quality, the plants grown from small seed were as good 
as those grown from large seed. 
“The source of seed, whether from one parent or several, seems 
to make little if any difference in the value of the product. The 
following tables show the results of seed sorting according to size 
when the seeds in a series are derived from the same plants, the 
purpose in this instance being to eliminate the influence of indi- 
viduality in different plants, and to insure similarity in such parental 
factors as relate to vigor and general growth force. 
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Large 39 737 #189 885 86 402 103 1.7 20 
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Large 100 1,658 166 #777 «4247.8 881 88 23 385 
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