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EXPERIMENTS IN SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



It may be necessary to remark, that in Nos. 14, 15, 16, 17, 

 18, 19, 21, 22, and 23, the plants were thinned to regular dis- 

 tances, leaving an equal number of plants in the Prepared, and 

 Unprepared rows. The barley, No. 29, and the wheat, No. 30, 

 were sown in drills, six inches apart ; the seeds being placed, by 

 a marked rod, two inches apart in the drills. 



The amount of produce resulting from the respective Prepared 

 and Unprepared seeds is exhibited in the following Table. 



Nemophila insignis . 



Gilia tricolor 



Collinsia bicolor 



Chryseis crocea 



Papaver amcenum . . 



Godetia rubicunda . 



Lupin us pubescens 



Erysimum Peroffskianum . 



Lupinus polyphyllus 



Acer Pseudo-platanus 



Madeira Onion 



Spanish Onion 



Radis Rose riemi-long 



Malta Lettuce 



Paris Cos Lettuce . 



Yellow Malta Turnip 



Green topped White Carrot 



Red Castelnaudary Beet . 



Yellow Leaf Beet . 



Lettuce-leaved Spinach 



Pomeranian Cabbage 



Large Green Savoy 



Fine Dark Ked Cabbage . 



Champion Potato . 



Haricot nain hatif de Hollande 



Pois nain hatif 



Prepared, Number of Pods 



Unprepared, ,, 

 Auvergne Pea 



Prepared, Number of Pods 



Unprepared, 

 Windsor Bean 



Barley, 5 rows prepared, against 

 (Grain 10 lbs. 13 oz. prep, 



Wheat, 5 rows prepared, against 

 v Grain 2 lbs. 11 oz. prep. 



Whole produce, July 3 . 



Julv3 . 

 Aug. 11. 

 July 21 . 

 Aug. 11 . 

 Aug. 11 . 

 Aug. 11 . 

 Sept. 11 . 



„ ' Aug. 11 

 Aug. 11 . 

 July 3 . 

 „ July 3 . 



July 3 . 

 July 3 . 

 Sept. 11 . 

 Sept 11 . 

 Sept. 11. 

 July 3 . 

 Cut close bv the ground, Sept. 11 

 „ * „ Sept. 11 



„ Sept. 11 



Tubers, dug up . Sept. 1 1 



Whole produce, July 3 

 1,124 } their weight 

 Whole produce, July 3 

 1,033") . . . . 

 1 139 < tneiv weight 



Whole produce, July 21 

 3 unprepared, July 21 



8 lbs. 14 oz. unprepared.) 

 3 unprepared 



2 lbs. 4 oz. unprepared.) 



Produce from 



Seeds 



Seeds not 



prepared 



prepared. 



lbs. 



oz. 



lbs. 



oz. 



8* 



13 



io' 



5 



3 



1 



5 



I 



27 



44 



23 



13 



13 







18 



8 



14 



6* 



19 



5 



19 



11 



18 



9 



11 



3 



7 



3 



38 



4 



37 



11 



24* 



12 



26* 



2 



5 



1 



4 







57 



7 



71 



4 



43 



5 



41 



12 



51 



3 



55 



8 



19 



15 



25 



7 



18 



1] 



15 



12 



98 







116 



4 



96 



14 



135 



2 



18 



2 



21 



7 



71 



9 



88 



15 



81 



5 



95 



12 



74 







82 







37 



10 



,44 



5 



10* 



*12 



11* 



4 



4 



6 



4 



4 



22 



13 



23 



4 



7 



15 



8 



3 



16 



IT 



16 



17 



30 



8 



28 







13 



14 



10 



12 



It thus appears that, in eight instances, the return of produce 

 is in favour of the Prepared seeds; and in twenty-three in- 

 stances the Unprepared has the advantage. The potatoes, it 

 may be remarked, were in both cases nearly all diseased ; whilst 

 in an adjoining piece of ground there was a good crop of sound 

 tubers, with very few diseased. This can only be attributed to 

 the depth of planting, which was much greater where the crop 

 turned out the soundest. 



Robert Thompson. 



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