OF DENISON UNIVERSITY. 
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month six slender, shining parallel veined linear leaves were waving 
gracefully above the soil. I let them grow in the hot sun until the 
I St. of September, then I carefully removed the earth from around them 
and put them in a glass jar. The method of germination is illustrated 
in Plate A, Fig. 2. 
In every case the radicle had come from the smooth side, even 
when it had to make quite a curve in order to turn its point into deep 
soil and the plumule springing from the convexity of the radicle 
starts upward. Thus proving that the germination is invariably the 
same, always rising from the center of the back of the seed and send- 
ing forth at the same time two growths, one downward, terminating in 
roots and rootlets, and the other upward, forming the leaf and eventu- 
ally the tree proper. Mrs. J. E. Dixson. 
[Editor’s Note. — We take the liberty to insert, Plate A, Fig, 3, a pen 
sketch after Sachs’ diagram, of the cross section of the date seed I, and germ- 
ination of the same, II and III, showing internal arrangement of plumule, &c.] 
