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F., and the dryness of the air was tempered somewhat by moisture 
from the greenhouse. 
On May 2, each lot of cuttings was again weighed, to determine 
the loss of moisture, after which ninety-nine from each were planted, 
with an equal number of fresh cuttings. The test was made in nine 
duplicate series, each containing twenty-six rows and eleven hills or 
eyes in each row. The first row in each series was planted with fresh 
cuttings, the second with cuttings that had been exposed two days, 
the third with those exposed three days and so on.* 
In the following table, the aggregate yield of the nine series is 
given as one series, i. e., the yields of the first row in all the series are 
added together to form row No 1 of the table, and so on. 
The second column of the table shows the per cent of loss in 
weight from evaporation during the exposure of the cuttings. As 
appears, this percentage did not always increase in proportion to 
the length of the exposure. The third column shows the number of 
eyes that vegetated out of ninety-nine planted. The four columns 
succeeding the third give the actual yields, and the four to the right 
the yields calculated on the basis of 100 hills. At the latter end of 
the table, the data of each five rows of the series (the first contains 
six rows), are averaged as one row. 
*As no cuttings were made on the five Sundays that intervened between 
April 2 and May 2, the number of days drying did not always correspond 
with the number of the row, as appears from the table. 
