+---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ | | | Came up |No. of| | |No.| Copy of Label. |per cent.| Days.| | +---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ | 1 | Ashcroft’s improved Purple Top | 58 | 12 |} | | 2 | New Bangholm | 96 | 10 |} | | 3 | Skirving’s Liverpool | 62 | 16 |} | | 4 | Green Top | 78 | 10 |}Taken | | 5 | Marshall’s improved Purple Top | 90 | 10 |}from the| | 6 | Hewer’s Improved White | 68 | 17 |}bags by | | 7 | Green Major | 86 | 10 |}the | | 8 | Skirving’s Swede (own grown) | 96 | 10 |}Author. | | 9 | Green Top Turnip, neighbour’s farm | 78 | 6 |} | |10 | Fosterton Hybrid Turnip | 64 | 10 |} | | | Came up =| 77·6 | | | | | Failed =| 22·4 | | | | | Failed of seedsman’s specimens =| 24·8 | | | +---+-------------------------------------+---------+------+---------+ Now, as “0 0 0” seed is supplied to customers under the designation here given, for the purpose of mixing, it is of little consequence whether it be used by the wholesale house or the retail dealer; if, however, it be employed by both, we should, indeed, get a bad sample. As regards the seedsman’s samples in the Tables 2 and 3, we are quite unable to give exact details of their history, but we have reason to believe that the stock whence they were taken was purchased in the ordinary course of business from different “wholesale houses,” as, though the tradesman whence the samples came combines the business of “nurseryman” with that of seedsman, we happen to know that he is not a grower of seeds, at least of turnip seeds. The average, then, of eighteen samples of turnips and swedes from this source is that 28 _per cent._ are non-germinating seeds. The next samples are from people in a large way of business, who are not mere retailers, but to whom we must accord all the immunities of the trade as seed-growers, wholesale and retail seed-merchants, &c. Before giving the tables with the results as regards these samples, it is necessary to state that they were not sent to us direct, but were forwarded through a farmer to whom they were sent in the ordinary small packet samples. We would further remark, that as all that would germinate took so few days about it, being an average of six days, whilst those of Table 1, being seeds partly of 1859 and partly of 1860, occupied nine days, and those of Table 2, whose date we do not know, eleven days; in all probability the seeds in question were tolerably new, most probably of the last seed season.