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From LARGE SEED AS IT GREW, FRoM SMALL SEED AS IT GREW, 
ABLE 7. 
Date, _Date, _Date, Date, | Date, | Date, Date, | Date, 
| June 3. June 10. June 20. July 2. | June 3. June 10.|June20. July 2. 
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3° 98 | 94 | 78 | 2, ©) 92 | 88 66 
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18 96 |= “100 | 88 13 | 82 91 | 73 
13 99 96 85 10 96 87 77 
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| 15 | 96. | 95 80 16 85 | 86 69 
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In the first half of table 1, and in the first column at the left, we 
find the total number of vegetations on June third, from the large ~ 
seed, to be twenty-eight. In a corresponding column in the 
other half of the table, we have the total of the small seed, 115, a 
difference of eighty-seven plants. In the next column at the right 
of those just given, we have the vegetations for the next period of 
seven days of the same seed, which, are 1,011 in large and 876 in 
small, or 135 plants in favor of the large seed. In the last column 
for the fourth period, we find 853 credited to large and 688 to the 
small beans, or 165° plants in favor of large seed, showing that the 
large seed vegetated slower at first, but at the beginning of the 
second period it had overtaken, and, in every instance, outnum- 
bered those from the smaller seeds. In the second table given, 
showing the number of seeds vegetating in the same periods, from 
large beans selected from small seed of the former year and small 
seed taken from the small beans of the same year, we find the 
figures in corresponding columns verifying the statements made in 
reviewing the first table, viz.: In the first period sixty-four plants 
in favor of small, and in second and third periods, 165 and 199 
respectively, the gain of the large when compared with small in 
periods one and two. Butin the third table giving the vegetation 
of the mixed seeds planted without selection, we have the condi- 
tions reversed in the first vegetations, in a diminished degree, 
however; and in periods two, three and four, the gain of the 
large over small, is less than in any of the other selections for 
