12 
Bulletin 110 . 
Some of the samples (two) were kept in envelopes, the rest 
were kept in the specimen tubes in which they were put for the first 
experiment. During the first four years the 
in a table drawer in my sitting roonp and for the last six years 
room in the basement of the chemical laboratory. 
I will give the three series of experiments though the limits of 
this bulletin scarcely justify it. 
No. 1. Prime seed gathered by myself. 
No. 2. Prime seed purchased of Vandewark. 
No. 3. Prime seed purchased of P. Anderson & Company. 
No. 4. Prime seed furnished by J. E. Gauger. 
No. 5. Prime seed furnished by J. E. Gauger. 
No. 6. Prime seed purchased of P. Henderson & Company. 
No! 7. Screenings, first quality, J.E. Gauger. 
No. 8. Screenings, first quality, J. E. Gauger. 
No. 9. Screenings, first quality, J. E. Gauger. 
No. 10. Screenings, second quality, J.E. Gauger. 
No. 11. Screenings, third quality, J. E. Gauger ^ N ok 
The following table of results is reproduced from Bui. No. d5, 
ynge 43. 
Tnr.RTTLTS OF SPROUTING EXPERIMENTS 1896 
No of 
Sample 
Quality 
Years Old 
Number of 
Seeds 
to the 
Pound 
Seeds 
Taken 
Seed 
Rotted 
Seeds Left 
Seeds 
Sprouted 
Average 
per cent 
Sprouted 
2 
206,837 \ 
100 
100 
0 
0 
0 
8 
100 
92 
} 96.0 
1 
9 
2 
228,818 \ 
100 
100 
1 
0 
9 
6 
90 
94 
} 92.0 
Q 
Q 
208,021 \ 
100 
loo 
100 
100 
1 
1 
7 
0 
92 
99 
\ 95.5 
O 
2 
.5 
1 
5 
13 
5 
86 
90 
} 88.0 
4 
3 
.{ 
100 
100 
0 
0 
2 
1 
98 
99 
\ 98.5 
u 
6 
.{ 
100 
100 
5 
5 
1 
3 
94 
92 
} 93.0 
b 
7 
8 
Q 
1 
259,340 \ 
100 
100 
23 
20 
11 
13 
66 
67 
} 66.5 
screenings, ilisl quality. 
2 
344,123 \ 
100 
100 
42 
29 
7 
11 
51 
60 
} 55.5 
screenings, mst quaiivij . 
3 
266,233 j 
100 
100 
24 
16 
1 
1 
75 
83 
} 79.5 
screenings, mst .. 
2 
331,383 j 
100 
100 
59 
53 
7 
5 
CO ^ 
£ 38.0 
1U 
11 
bcreenmgs. seeuuu . . 
1 
312,385 | 
100 
100 
66 
48 
1 
5 
33 
47 
f 8 .5 
11 
screenings, liiiiu. quantj. •• 
The results in this table show conclusively that neither of the 
requisites laid down by Loudon, that is, plump and new seed, are 
necessary so far as their germinating power is concerned and that the 
statement that two year old seed do not germinate freely, to say 
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