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It appears that the piants from the greenest seed ripened ten 
fruits before those from any other’sample had ripened one. It also 
appears that the fruits grown from the fully ripened seed were the 
latest of all in ripening. It appears, however, that seed from the 
greenest fruit vegetated very poorly. We noted also, that the 
plants appeared feebler than those from any of the other samples of 
seed. ‘They were, however, very prolific. To intensify the effect 
of using such unripe seed, we gathered for planting next season six 
fruits of the same stage of maturity as were selected in 1883, from 
a plant grown from the greenest seed. 
In order to compare plants grown from normally ripened seed 
with those from seed of fruits gathered very green and ripened by 
exposure to the sun, we present the results obtained with three 
varieties as follows: 
First vegetated Per cent First ripe 
in — days. vegetated. fruit in — days, 
Gath- Gathered Green Green 
ered green and ri- ripened ripened 
ripe. pened in sun. Ripe. in sun. Ripe. in sun, 
SUT OWA Ya ys ie bx ole" 10 10 90 84 141 143 
Extra Early Red... 11 11 86 92 149 129 
AOWEATOR Ns oo ne ao. 0s lee 11 72 84 144 184 
In the case of the Trophy it appears that the plants from the seed 
ripened in the sun matured their first fruits slightly later than those 
from the normally ripened seed. In the®ther two varieties the case 
was very different. In the Extra Early Red the first fruit from 
seed gathered green and ripened in the sun, ripened twenty days 
in advance of that from normally ripened seed. 
We note here an interesting fact in connection with the fruits 
picked green and ripened by exposure to the sun. While saving 
the seeds we noticed that only a portion of them sunk in the water 
as do normally ripened seeds. With one variety, the Extra Karly 
Red, we placed these lighter and heavier seeds in different packages, 
planting them separately in the spring. The results appear below: 
Commenced First ten 
to vegetate Per cent First ripe fruit ripe fruits. 
in — days. vegetated. in — days. in — days. 
Lighter Seed.... i! OO he ane 141 149. 
Heavier Seed... 11 92 124 138 
It thus appears that although both samples vegetated well, the 
fruits from the heavier seed matured decidedly earlier than those 
from the lighter. | 
We noted that the seeds from the earlier ripened fruits were on 
the average slightly heavier than those from the later ones of the 
same variety; also that normally ripened seeds were heavier than 
those from the same variety gathered green anql ripened by exposure 
to the sun. 
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