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beds the percentage of germinated seedlings surviving was practi¬ 
cally the same for no shade and one-quarter shade (85.3 and 85.7), 
but was distinctly less for one-half shade (78.5). 
The total number of surviving plants at the end of the season, 
in the entire beds in 1913, including those in the germination-count 
plots, when expressed in terms of the percentage of seed sown, 
made a distinct showing in favor of no shade. The percentage for 
no shade was 64, for one-quarter shade next at 51 per cent, and 
^ne-half shade least with 48 per cent. Losses in the 1914 beds are 
shown in detail in Table V. 
Table V:— Losses by months under different degrees of shade , 1914 beds 
Month 
Loss, no shade 
Loss, 34 shade 
Loss, 34 shade 
Dead 
seed¬ 
lings 
Per¬ 
centage 
of ger¬ 
mina¬ 
tion to 
date 
Per¬ 
centage 
of sea¬ 
son loss 
Dead 
seed¬ 
lings 
Per¬ 
centage 
of ger¬ 
mina¬ 
tion to 
date 
Per¬ 
centage 
of sea¬ 
son loss 
Dead 
seed¬ 
lings 
Per¬ 
centage 
of ger¬ 
mina¬ 
tion to 
date 
Per¬ 
centage 
of sea¬ 
son loss 
June_ 
23 
12.2 
58.9 
18 
6.1 
46.1 
12 
15.4 
20.0 
July- 
14 
3.7 
35.9 
17 
3.4 
43.6 
22 
9.3 
36.7 
August--- 
1 
0.3 
2.6 
1 
0.2 
2.6 
9 
3.2 
15.0 
September-October_ 
1 
0.3 
2.6 
3 
0.6 
7.7 
17 
5.9 
28.3 
Season loss _ - 
39 
10.1 
100.0 
39 
7.5 
100.0 
60 
20.8 
100.0 
The largest and best developed plants were obtained from the 
unshaded bed, the second best from the one-half shaded bed, and 
the smallest from the one-quarter shaded bed. 
The fact that there is a marked difference in size of seedlings 
according to month of germination, as shown in Figure 4, is an 
additional argument in favor of no shade. As the earliest ger¬ 
mination occurs without shade it should naturally follow that a 
greater proportion of large, well-developed plants will be produced 
without shade than when either one-quarter or one-half shade is used. 
