New Yoke Agricultural Experiment Station. 
39 
COMMERCIAL CABBAGE SEED GERMINATIONS. 
The germination of cabbage seed from various seedsmen, the crop 
of 1885, and the trial made in January and February, 1887, gave the 
following figures for the white and red cabbaging class. 
SEEDSMAN. 
No. of 
packets. 
No. of 
seed 
used. 
No. Of 
seed ger- 
minated. 
Germin- 
ation, 
per cent. 
36 
7,200 
5,173 
71.8 
24 
4,800 
3,747 
78.1 
Henderson 
23 
4,600 
3,540 
76.9 
Sibley 
20 
4,000 
3,134 
78.8 
Thorburn 
17 
3,400 
2,782 
81.8 
Tillinghast 
8 
1,600 
1,515 
94.7 
Everitt 
7 
1,400 
987 
70.5 
Department of Agriculture 
6 
1,200 
1,079 
89.9 
6 
1,200 
954 
79.5 
6 
1,200 
577 
48.1 
Haage & Schmidt (Germany) 
5 
1,000 
739 
73.9 
2 
400 
333 
83.2 
Bril) 
• 2 
400 
341 
85.2 
Ferry 
1 
200 
112 
56.0 
1 
200 
137 
68.5 
Total 
164 
32,800 
25,150 
76.7 
The trials were made in duplicate, one hundred seed to each test. 
We noted, as has been reported by us in 1884, that but rarely exact 
duplication was obtained, and oftentimes a considerable variation 
between the results gained from the two samples counted from the 
same package of seed, and exposed to identical conditions. As a matter 
of interest we tabulate some variable trials, one for each of the seeds- 
men above named. 
The greatest variation in a duplicate germination from same sample : 
SEEDSMEN. 
Gregory. . . 
Landreth . . 
Henderson. 
Sibley 
Thorburn 
Tillinghast 
Everitt 
Department of Agriculture . . 
Benary (Germany) 
Daraman & Co. (Italy) 
Haage & Schmidt (Germany) 
Burpee 
Brill 
Ferry 
Johnson & Stokes 
Per cent. Per cent 
87 
58 
98 
98 
79 
86 
88 
99 
77 
54 
71 
98 
97 
60 
74 
60 
38 
74 
62 
67 
64 
75 
90 
69 
26 
55 
93 
88 
52 
63 
