. The testing of forest seeds during 25 years, 1887-1912 . 9 13 Scandinavian (mostly Sw^edish) 10 West Norwegian (Nordfjord) 33 Scottish 4 Mid-European (Hartz and Belgium) 1 Baltic (Livland) 1 From the Ural The high w^eight of the last sample is striking. As mentioned above in discussing the spruce, I have tried if itis possible by means of the weight of the seed, to determine theorigin of our old Danish pine w^oods, and I found that the resultsw^ere very similar to those obtained in the case of the spruce. In1911—12 con

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. The testing of forest seeds during 25 years, 1887-1912 . 9 13 Scandinavian (mostly Sw^edish) 10 West Norwegian (Nordfjord) 33 Scottish 4 Mid-European (Hartz and Belgium) 1 Baltic (Livland) 1 From the Ural The high w^eight of the last sample is striking. As mentioned above in discussing the spruce, I have tried if itis possible by means of the weight of the seed, to determine theorigin of our old Danish pine w^oods, and I found that the resultsw^ere very similar to those obtained in the case of the spruce. In1911—12 cones were sent to me from old pines in the heath of HaldSkramso in Jutland, and the w^eight of the seed w^as as foliow^s: Weight of 1000 seeds Seed from the heath of Hald (5x 100 seeds weighed) grams » » Skramso, old trees » » » » » » » young » » » » The germinating capacity is good, 16 /q, 48 /^ and 32 o/o respec-tively, in 5 days. The pines in Hald are presumably of Northern, those on Skramsoof Mid-European,

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