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is also possible that there is a relation between weight of seed and 
prolificacy of plant. In our first attempt we must expect to obtain 
more or less discordant results, on account of using purchased seeds 
which have undergone more or less selection for quality by the seeds- 
men in the way of winnowing and removing the imperfect ones. When, 
however, we come to weigh the seeds as collected from the plant, we 
shall expect to find certain discrepancies between the weight of different 
samples which may be caused by individual variation or by the in- 
fluence of season. When the results of our weighings come to be 
compared with the products at harvest it is then possible that some 
relations may be found which do not now appear. We have expressed 
the weights in a column of grains, and in another column of grammes, 
as thus our weighings may be compared with the weighings of others 
who have adopted the one or the other system exclusively. In our 
arrangement we pursue the alpbabetical system as far as may be done 
without separating the genera to which the species or varieties are 
assigned. In the larger number of cases one hundred seeds were actually 
weighed, in a few cases a less number than one hundred, on account of 
only having a small supply. 
Alkekengi. 
Weight per 100 seeds. 
Grains. Grammes. 
Petite Tomate di: Mexique.. Gn aps ees sca yee 2.16 14 
pweet Yellows’ ic wewec'scs)o a «pbeirenetslemenea) he cee 1.54 -10 
Angelica. 
Angelica otc. il adal eye Soh cohen Wesel lanaieters 7.09 46 
Asparagus 
CTA GO. ORL aN a otal Mie emtcraric kar sins Osha tin Slide aetna 29.62 1.92 
Asperula. 
Asperula Odoratak fi. deas ne eea eae ssc 9.41 61 
ilm, fo. 
1S CUTTY Danaea ye De eTMG ab aman, SP AEP ATS ole Sean 8b) 92 06 
Barley. 
Kinyer’s. Chevalier (Stas crop) sa, 9). on siete wr 82.56 5.35 
Manshury, (Sibley). o. 5 cee cc eapres tee Rute 3m phe 49.37 3.20 
mibleys lmiperials(mibley) vost n as nes aeees os. 40.59 2.63 
Beans 
TEL OTA shy utara atleast e's te deeminh latent wre 2, anol ale 927.8 60.12 
Black iN ee ron tyines sglels else rekdwte’ abn oak asiiple hos 6 We 486.8 31.5, 
Blacks S peck leit iar shel eee wisteiae obit esha ee 650.2 40.8 
Bine (Rodded a ateee xa: City eniamis k Woe 21a se 632.7 41.0 
Gulifurniay Bran eh Qiu Ges a roeiet «oh oe hoe 307.8 19.9 
Carter’s Champion Runner. ...). 0.2 c. 00. 66 +0 os 1,651.2 107.0 
os. eae 
