Melon culture; a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market: including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . s crop, and so it behooves him to make himselfabsolutely sure that his seed is going to grow, asupon this fact depends success or failure. How to Test the Seed.—If there is a little spaceill the hotbed that will not be occupied for a fewdays, the seeds may be sowed in a flat or shallowbox and set in the hotbed, where the conditionswill be most favorable for germination. On
Melon culture; a practical treatise on the principles involved in the production of melons, both for home use and for market: including a chapter on forcing and one on insects and diseases and means of controlling the same . s crop, and so it behooves him to make himselfabsolutely sure that his seed is going to grow, asupon this fact depends success or failure. How to Test the Seed.—If there is a little spaceill the hotbed that will not be occupied for a fewdays, the seeds may be sowed in a flat or shallowbox and set in the hotbed, where the conditionswill be most favorable for germination. One hun-dred seeds of each of the lots to be tested will notrequire much room, and the percentage of germina-tion may be easily reckoned. If ten per cent, or THE SEED 21 more, of the seeds fail to germinate, it will then bebest to add to the number of seeds planted, for itis much cheaper and safer to thin out than to beobliged to replant. If one has no hotbed, all that isnecessary is to take a couple of dinner plates; onone place a piece of muslin or canton flannel, mois-ten it, place 100 seeds upon it so they will nottouch each other, place another piece of damp clothover them and turn the other plate bottom side up. Fig. 3. Seed-testing box filled with corn after the melon seedshad germinated. over the whole to prevent evaporation, and set thewhole in a warm place for a few days, when theymay be counted out and the percentage of germina-tion ascertained. Another inexpensive seed testeris shown in Fig 3. It is simply a shallow box ortray, of almost any dimensions not too large to beeasily handled, with wires stretched across in bothdirections, two inches apart each way. This willmake little pockets or squares large enough to hold 22 mi:lon clltlke ti\e or ten melon seeds. This flat is then filled withclean sand which has been dampened, the seeds i)utin place as indicated in the cut, and the wholecovered with .tjlass in order to prevent evaporation,nnd placed in a warm room for
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