. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. *^s :*'./>»?'? Mat 8. 1918. S^ ,-> ? DWARF DOUBLE PEARL TUBEROSES $ per 100;.,. $ per 1000 , ,^. Special quotatton on 5000 bulbs. ^ ;/ Begonia Bulbs Doz. 100 1000 Slncl*' Separate colors $ $ $ SIncls. Mixed colors 30 2 00 18 00 , . Deubl*. Mixed colon 50 33 00 '1l':''-'ri Gladiolus 100, 1000 Prix* Winner Mixture, specially blended for tlorists $ $ ,; Gloxinia Bulbs Doz. 100 Mixed Colors $ $ PEONIES Sweet-8c«i|ted Chinese Doz. 100 Double White Mixed $ $ Double Red Mixed Double Pi
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. *^s :*'./>»?'? Mat 8. 1918. S^ ,-> ? DWARF DOUBLE PEARL TUBEROSES $ per 100;.,. $ per 1000 , ,^. Special quotatton on 5000 bulbs. ^ ;/ Begonia Bulbs Doz. 100 1000 Slncl*' Separate colors $ $ $ SIncls. Mixed colors 30 2 00 18 00 , . Deubl*. Mixed colon 50 33 00 '1l':''-'ri Gladiolus 100, 1000 Prix* Winner Mixture, specially blended for tlorists $ $ ,; Gloxinia Bulbs Doz. 100 Mixed Colors $ $ PEONIES Sweet-8c«i|ted Chinese Doz. 100 Double White Mixed $ $ Double Red Mixed Double Pink , Johnson 217 Narket St., rnLADELTBU, PA. Mention Tbe Rerlew wben-yoo write. Proportion of Qqod and Bad. ThJb importance ? 6t controlling the purity and germinati'ng power of seed may be illustrated; by reference to a few varieties amppg' the grasses which are iftmplqyed Tj^fth great freedom by farmers in all .parts of this country. The average value of Italian rye grass ' on tl\e basis of the Zurich work durinij ; the last thirty-six years is ninety-five ", per cent for purity and eighty per cent i^^ioi*-germination; this gives seventy-six per; cent of good seed. The figure may sutpriee the reader, but if every farmer Were able to ensure three grass seeds out of four being perfect he would have good reason to be satisfied. Let us see, however, what last year's exam- ination tells us. The average percent- age of purity was ninety-one and of germination seventy-four, while the highest per cent of purity was ninety- nine and four-fifths and of germination ninety-seven, both being exceptional figures. The lowest, however, was six- teen per cent for purity and three per cent for germination, so that of sixteen pure seeds in every hundred only three would grow—and of such instances there are many. Four Good Seeds in a Hundred. English rye grass was in one case only forty-five per cent pure, with ten per cent germination; in other words, only four seeds
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