SECOND EEPORT ON VAElOtIS MANUEES AT 0HI8WI0K. 147 
ripened. Flowers were first observed in the box treated with 
ammonia. 
With the exception of the plants in the unmanured box, which 
this year presented no trace of the sudden rise from the lowest 
to the maximum degree of development, and of those in boxes 
5 and 6, which showed no evidence of that fall from the maxi- 
mum to the minimum degree which was observed last season, 
the general results in all the boxes may be said to have been 
about the same. 
The roots also presented much the same characters as during 
the preceding season, except in the case of the nitrate- of- soda 
box, which was not so highly developed this year as in the former 
one, while in box 6 (mineral and nitrate) the condition of the 
roots in the two years was exactly reversed. 
Carum Carui. 
Boxes 
1. 
2. . 
3. 
4. 
5. 
6. 
1870. 
April 25 
a 
d- 
c 
b 
/ 
e 
May 2 
a 
d 
/ 
e 
„ 9 
a 
d 
c 
"b 
/ 
e 
16 
a 
c 
b 
/ 
„ 23 
"f 
c 
e 
"d 
„ 30 
June 6 
"h 
"f 
a 
c 
"d 
e 
„ 13 
c 
e 
d 
f 
„ 20 
b 
e 
c 
a 
d 
f 
„ 27 
d 
c 
e 
f 
Cut on June 28. 
b 
e 
c 
a 
d 
f 
September 5 ... 
e 
a 
d 
f 
1871. 
April 22 
a 
c 
f 
d 
b 
e 
„ „ Eoots 
a 
h 
f 
e 
d 
c 
The plants in the unmanured box, and in that treated with 
