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abortive seeds present, and the difference in the per cent of germina- 
tions is due rather to the per cent of empty seed cases present than to 
any lessened vitality of the true seeds. The influence of the condition 
of the plant from which the seed was gathered seems also to affect the 
germination percentage, hence the fairest trials must be with seeds 
gathered from a large number of plants. Thus, fifteen tests of onion 
seed, name and age unknown, received from Messrs. Hiram Sibley & 
Co., for germinative trials, gave an average germination per cent of 
eighty-four, the extremes being seventy-four and ninety-two. ‘This 
compares favorably with the Connecticut experiment station trials of 
known, carefully selected fresh onion seed, from a seed grower, the 
average of thirty-three trials being eighty-seven and two tenths per 
cent. Per contra, in trials with Station seeds gathered from single 
plants variously treated, the normal plant yielded seed, of which sixty- 
eight per cent germinated ; seed gathered from a compressed stalk ger- 
minated sixty-five per cent; seed gathered from a ligatured stalk 
germinated forty-six per cent ; and seed gathered from a grafted stalk 
germinated fifty-three per cent. 
The following table represents the result of germination trials from 
seed raised at the Station, and hence of known freshness and purity, as 
under one year old : 
Beans. 
Per cent One-half the seed Total 
germinated. germinated in days. reef of 
rial. 
ME EECA. a5, ig ss o/s dhibhe «aloha ys 100 3 5 
PIE OW HICG RES. one ok dls i hun ns 100 3 5 
CO SG CA ae a Bar a 100 3 5 
WCRI ATION. & ois 60's 60 Sales aiinancs 99 3 5 
Corn, Flint Varieties. 
mace LOP-COLN, WHILO.... eds. dees ss 100 v 9 
SMAI AS er enihe potetelal cists 100 4 13 
do BOUT ieee abate e 98 4 12 
7s he DOC RSS Re ea 100 4 5 
BUMMER Pater shag sievee e's Gets an'e ere 100 3 5 
SECM 958s "a Hi ws ekpls elo utate ca “e'se a's 100 15 21 
i ESS AeA Ae 39 2 8 
RL CRMC Hens aio wie ote talene ere elbtccty 99 8 8 
Corn, Dent Varieties. 
Blount’s White Prolific............. 96 5 12 
PM LIETNsheL's & gieicja'e «oie 0 s.¢ Plate ar aie tats 58 +t 10 
STIPE TA TLION bel c's os ols 5s valtede eg gate 91 4 9 
REMI jas ereie)s\aicis aca o'sce.tye oie 99 5 15 
Sibley’s Pride of the North.......... 92 5 9 
; TM tc aU ite. Neral 99 4 8 
Sibley’s Pride of the North.......... 93 ‘ 11 
MNGi oh cela g3a lala «'eldiotdin «bm isloics 98 6 
Cucumber. 
PUERMEUUUIREOD. e'vicivs viscieie sees ice iui tel 6 12 
