+---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ | | | Came up |No. of| | |No.| Copy of Label. |per cent.| Days.| | +---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ | 1 | Norfolk Green round | 76 | 9 |} | | 2 | White Globe | 78 | 15 |} | | 3 | Early Grey-topped Stone | 80 | 10 |} | | 4 | Red Tankard, or Pudding | 62 | 11 |}Taken | | 5 | Orange Jelly | 52 | 15 |}from the| | 6 | Norfolk Round Red | 80 | 10 |}bags by | | 7 | Purple-topped yellow Scotch | 76 | 11 |}the | | 8 | White Dutch | 64 | 12 |}Author. | | 9 | Early Green top | 64 | 13 |} | |10 | Yellow Tankard Pudding | 48 | 12 |} | | | Came up =| 68 | | | | | Failed =| 32 | | | +---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ Eight samples of swedes from the same source are in the next table associated with a sample of Skirving’s swede, grown in our own garden (8), of the following table, and another of turnip (9), grown on a neighbouring farm. We may remark upon the last-named sample, that we had observed the growth of this seed, which was from a very poor crop, half of which had decayed on the ground with the early frost of 1860, and the rest, without transplanting or selection of any kind, was allowed to seed. Now, as this whole crop was so degenerated that it ought never to have been seeded at all, we were anxious to get some of the seed from the bulk, in order to test from its growth this year whether it will not bring forth a degenerate progeny. Its germinating qualities will be seen from the table, and yet it is by no means the worst sample, which seems to show that the others are not naturally bad, but so by mixture. TABLE 3.—_Germination of Swedes, &c., from Market Samples, &c._