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each. The soil was prepared as described for onions. We noted 
the following data: | 
: 3 8 
38 GS Seer 
43 26 28 28 
se el el Sl 
Oop A eeee oa 
Ay Bers ae eit 
Kixtra Large Prickly or Winter .........:..... 53 54 100 108 
Extra Large Round Leaved..............-.--- 64 55 80 130 
a ANC Oa: F5.5/ 3/510 Seis Sec Nt Retreats tacit Vee 64 52 80 1380 
Large Dutch (round seed) is: 5e% ss. 2 tse cee 55 52 80 108 
Leng’ Standings hs sss haan: Scene cee 55 66 100 1386 
Savory Leaved (round seed)..............++-. 63 52 99 100 
NATOHAY eset tiy satel ia § PaCEt AY Deca Pee eee 70 52 106 103 
The seeds of all the varieties vegetated in thirteen days from 
planting. ; 
It appears that the Long Standing was, as its name implies, slow- 
est in blooming. This variety seems very well adapted to sprmg 
sowing. 
Ws noted that spinach sown in the fall not only made much larger 
growth than that sown in spring, but that it was later in running in 
seed. 
We had much difficulty in describing the different varieties, as 
the variations are'so great. Although a general difference was ap- 
parent between most of the plantings, we found it next to impossible 
to specify from the appearance of the plants in what this difference 
consisted. 
Eauperiments. 
In order to discover the influence of early and late matured seed 
upon the time of blooming in the resulting crop, we gathered in 
1883 four samples of seed from each of six varieties of spinach. 
- The selections made were 1st. The earliest ripened seed from one 
plant; 2d. The latest ripened seed from the same plant; 3d. The . 
whole yield of seed of the plant that ripened earliest, and 4th. The. 
whole yield of the plant that ripened latest. We planted one row 
of each of the four selections in the garden April 28. 
The results show that the earliest ripened seed on the plant vege- 
tated on the average forty per cent,* while the latest seed from the 
same plant vegetated twenty-two per cent. The plants grown from 
the latest seed bloomed on the average about two days later than 
those from the-earliest seed. ; 
The seed from the earliest ripened plant vegetated on the average 
forty-two per cent, while that from the latest plant vegetated forty 
per cent. The plants grown from the seed of thg latest plant 
* We here consider the seed cases of spinach as individual seeds. 
