. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 64 The Florists'Review Jaxvamj 18, 1016. $5,265; 1914, dutiable, $283,143, and 1915, dutiable, $176,787. Our importations of seeds were as follows for the ten months of the years named ending with October: Clover— 1918, 18,260,953 pounds, valued at $1,700,351; 1914, 22,639,954 pounds, val- ued at $2,072,254, and 1915, 17,513,867 pounds, valued at $1,852,944. All other grass seed: 1913, 20,987,347 pounds, valued at $1,396,009; 1914, 31,250,297 pounds, valued at $1,333,223, and 1915, 23,548,448 pounds, valued at $982,735. All other seeds with the exc
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 64 The Florists'Review Jaxvamj 18, 1016. $5,265; 1914, dutiable, $283,143, and 1915, dutiable, $176,787. Our importations of seeds were as follows for the ten months of the years named ending with October: Clover— 1918, 18,260,953 pounds, valued at $1,700,351; 1914, 22,639,954 pounds, val- ued at $2,072,254, and 1915, 17,513,867 pounds, valued at $1,852,944. All other grass seed: 1913, 20,987,347 pounds, valued at $1,396,009; 1914, 31,250,297 pounds, valued at $1,333,223, and 1915, 23,548,448 pounds, valued at $982,735. All other seeds with the exception of sugar beet seeds: Free of duty—1913, $1,611,224; 1914j $1,450,965, and 1915, $2,020,231; dutiable —1913, $816,197; 1914, $1,028,083, and 1915, $1,077,295. C. L. L. SEED TESTING. Vitality or Only Germination. ^ The proprietors of this seed estab- lishment are surprised, after correspond- ence with a number of seed merchants in all parts of the country, to learn how few make any practical germina- tive tests of the seeds they sell. They mostly pursue that fallacious and de- luding system of testing in wet blot- ters or seed sprouting machines, which may be compared to incubators, both showing a sprouting capacity, but not a capacity for a continuance of growth, not an ability to sustain life and grow into a green plant, which alone indi- cates the germinative value of seed. This seed establishment has been mak- ing earth tests for over 100 years and is glad to record that some few others do the same, but nine-tenths in number of seed merchants in the United States are deceiving themselves and deluding the public. The subject of seed germinative tests, that is the practical test of the power of a seed to project its delicate sprout through the surrounding earth and above the earth's surface into the day- light, is so crucially important to all seed purchasers that the United States Department of Agriculture could not enter into a better crusade for the pro- tection
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