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Bean. 
«i Germination per cent Total 
each trial. ays 
d Jt Te IV. drying. 
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Radish. »« 
Germination per cent Total 
each trial. days 
: I. TE: LT a EV ave IV. VIL. drying. 
Chinese White, large seed...... 92 98 100 88 55 66 82 42 
Chinese White, ordinary seed... 86 97 100 86 15 25 50 42 
Onion. 
White Globe, four hundred seed, first germination, fifty-eight per 
cent. 3 
Second germination, after one day drying, seven seed planted, one 
hundred per cent. 
Second germination after eight days drying, ninety seed planted, one 
hundred per cent. 
Third germination after eight days drying, eighty-seven seed planted, 
ninety-three per cent. 
Fourth germination after seven days drying, eighty-one seed planted, 
seventy-six per cent. 
Fifth germination after seven days drying, sixty seed planted, thirty 
per cent. 
Sixth germination after seven days drying, eighteen seed planted, 0 
per cent. 
Parsnip. 
Wild parsnip, first germination, sixty per cent. 
Wild parsnip, second germination, one day dried, 0 per cent. 
Lettuce. 
Mixed seed, five hundred planted, ninety-one per cent. 
Second germination, three hundred and fifty-one planted, one day 
dried, ten per cent. 
From these figures we may infer that corn, wheat, peas, beans, rad- 
ish and onion seed have a vitality which will protect against many vi- 
cissitudes of soil relation to moisture, while parsnip and lettuce seed 
require to progress at once from germination to vegetation. This vi- 
tality is especially evident in wheat, and this explains the safety of the 
custom of fall planting, even before the droughts of the season have 
passed. In these seeds of regerminative vitality we have developed a 
drought-resisting power very gratifying to the planter. 
The method in which growth is renewed is deserving of notice. 
Thus, in the maize and wheat, the descending axis usually dies, while ’ 
the ascending axis resumes growth, throwing out rootlets from itself. 
In some cases, however, the descending axis retains its vitality and re- 
sumes growth. In the case of the onion and radish the growth was 
always resumed by the descending axis. In the bean growth was re- 
sumed by rootlets starting out from the descending axis. 
