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Germination of Corn soaked in TT aCl solutions. 



The amount of absor}tion is discussed in the preceeding 

 experiment. The present i s a continuation of amount of absorp- 

 tion but here special stress is given to time and per cent of 

 germination. 



The corn used for these experiments was the hard flinty 

 variety used in experiment No.l. This corn gave a germination 

 test of 97 % % After the corn of these experiments was soaked 

 in the series, or part of the complete series, of salt solu- 

 tions for the time indicated at the head of each table, they 

 were weighed and placed in the constant moisture germinator, 

 already described. The seeds were weighed from time to time, 

 the last weighing being when the first seed coat was actually 

 ruptured and the radicle pushing through. While the weights 

 did not remain constant in the germinator it remained fairly 

 so. A record of the time of germination was kept as follows. 



