Annual Report for 1894 of the Consulting Chemist. 773 
List of Analyses — continued. 
Waters .... 
, 1G9 
Superphosphates . 
. 107 
Dissolved bones and compound artificial manures . 
. 102 
Bones and bone-meals . 
. 04 
Peruvian guano 
8 
Fish guano .... 
. 29 
Shoddy 
. 23 
Soot 
0 
Basic slag .... 
. 51 
Sulphate of ammonia 
1 
Nitrate of soda 
. 30 
Potash salts . 
15 
Lime 
6 
Refuse materials . 
. 25 
Soils .... 
. 49 
Creosote 
5 
Miscellaneous 
. 13 
1,148 
Analyses in connection with the Annual Country 'l 09 
Meeting J 
Analyses in connection with the Woburn experiments 1 89 
and other agricultural investigations . . . / 
Total 1,259 
J. Augustus Voelcker. 
13 Hanover Square, London, W. 
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1894 OF THE 
CONSULTING BOTANIST. 
The Grass seeds examined and tested showed a high degree of 
purity and a satisfactory germination. Cocksfoot was generally 
free from weeds : only 6 per cent, had any other seeds present, which 
were small quantities of Yorkshire Fog. The average germination 
was 88 per cent. Meadow Fescue was quite pure, and had an ave- 
rage germination of 94 per cent. Meadow Foxtail was also practi- 
cally free from weeds ; the Tussock Grass, formerly so frequently 
present, was not found in any of this year’s samples : the average 
germination was 81 per cent. Timothy was, as is generally the 
case, free from weeds ; excluding a single sample which contained 
50 per cent, of old seeds that had lost their vitality, the average 
germination reached 97 per cent. Meadow Grass was free from 
weeds, and had an average germination of 84 per cent. The Rye- 
grasses are the least free from impurities of all the grasses. Over 
two-thirds of the samples examined contained more or less York- 
shire Fog — in several cases 8 per cent., and in one case 10 per cent., 
of this weed being present : the average germination amounted to 
91 per cent. .... 
