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RELATION OF VEGETATION TO GERMINATION. 
An investigation under charge of, and reported by the Assistant 
Horticulturist. ; ‘ 
In the early spring we could not but notice the variation that ex- 
isted between the germinative properties of our seed as tested in our 
apparatus and the vegetative properties under circumstances of actual 
planting. We hence devised a series of trials for testing the relations, 
if any, between germination end vegetation — by germination mean- 
ing the vitality ‘sufficient to form a radicle, and by vegetation the 
vitality required to form a plant. In our germinative apparatus, as 
described in another place as used for commercial seeds, the seeds 
were counted and removed as fast as the radicle appeared. In our 
vegetations, seeds from the sume packages used for the duplicate ger- 
minative trials were planted in clean sand at one quarter to one-half 
inches depth according to the species, moisture supplied by capillary 
attraction from water furnished at the base of the apparatus, and the 
plants removed as the cotyledons had formed and growth had com- 
menced. ‘The following table gives in detail the data obtained for . 
each species of vegetable in the’ vegetations and a column of germina- 
tion of duplicates “under trial. In the last column the percentage re- 
lation of the vegetations to the germinations offer figures for 
comparison. 


