1895.] Deviation in Development Due to the use of Unripe Seeds. 815 
Owing to their weakened condition the plants from imma- 
ture seed are less able to withstand unfavorable conditions than 
those from ripe seed, the difference being more marked the 
younger the seeds. In my own attempts to grow very green 
tomato seeds in the green-house, fully eighty-five per cent of 
the plants that had unfolded the cotyledons, perished before 
reaching the third leaf. Wollny” observed a great loss of 
plants from immature seed of winter rye, taking into account 
the number of plants growing in the fall and in the following 
spring, while the plants from ripe seed under the same condi- 
tions experienced no loss whatever (see table IV). 
IV.—WinteR Rye FROM RIPE AND UnrRIPE SEED. 
Experiment condueted by Wollny. 
Degrees of ripeness. planted. spring. per cent. 
| Number | Growing in-| Growingin | Wintered 
fall. i 
| 
| 
Very gr 100 | 97 40 41 
In the milk 100 | 96 88 91 
Pale PAUE a reai 100 100 100 100 
ully ripe | 100 100 100 100 
| 
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(To be continued.) 
THE EFFECT OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE ON 
POSTERITY. 
By James WEIR, JR. 
The greatest, best, and highest law of Higher Civilization is that which 
declares that men should strive to benefit not himself alone, but his posterity. 
I. THE ORIGIN OF THE MATRIARCHATE. 
In the very beginning woman was, by function, a mother ; 
by virtue of her surroundings, a house-wife. Man was then, 
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