Germination Periods.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 April 1913, Page 4

Germination Periods.

APPROXIMATE TIME TAKEN

We assume that tho seeds aro grown in the open borders, without any artificial assistance, but under favourable circumstances; much depends on the ago of the seed and tho temperaturo of the ground in which it is planted.

AGRICULTURAL SEEDS—Beans 14 to 16 days; barley, 7 to 14; carrot, 18 to 24; cloves, 7to 14; grasses, 7 to 14; rye, 7to 14; oats, 9 to 16; wheat, 9to 16; rape, 10 to 14; man-gel-wurzel, 20 to 30.

VEGETABLE SEEDS. —Asparagus 20 to 30 days; broad beans, 12 to 1G; French beans, 10 to 20; beet, 20 to 30; broccoli, 10 to lo; cauliflower, 10 to 15; cabbage, 7 to 10; carrot. 18 to 24; celery, 20 to 30; cress, 7 to 10; cucumber, 10 to 16; endive, 10 to 14; kohl rabi, 10 to 14 ; gourds and pumpkins, 10 to 20; leek, 15 to 30; lettuce. 10 to 1-1; melons. 10 to 14; mustard, 2 to 3; onion, 15 to 30; parsley, 10 to 20 ; peas, 20 to 30; pepper or capsicum, 10 to 16; potatoes, 10 to 30; radish, 10 to 14; rhubarb, 20 to 30; sea kale, 20 to 30; spinach, 10 to 15; tomato, 8 to 20; turnips, 10 to 14; herbs, 16 to 30.

FL-OWER. SEEDS.—Aster, 10 to 18 days; auricula, 15 to 30; balsam, 10 to 14; candytuft, 7 to 10; Canterbury bell, 15 to 20; carnation, 20 to 30; chrysanthemum, 14 to 20; cockscomb, 7 to 1-1; convolvulus, 7 to 14; cowslip, 15 to 20; daisy, 15 to 20; egg plant, 10 to 14; everlasting flowers, 14 to 20; forget-me-not, 15 to 20; heartsease, lo to 20 ; hollyhock, 15 to 20; jacobea, 15 to 20; larkspur, 10 to 20; lobelia, 20 to 30 ; lupins, 16 to 20; marigold (French), 10 to 14; marvel of Peru, 15 to 20; mignonette, 20 to 30; raas:.*rtiuni, 10 to 14; passionflowers, 10 to 50; peas, sweet. 10 to 14; pink and picotee, 30 to 40; polyanthus, 15 to 20; poppy, 10 to 15; primrose, 15 to 20; rocket, 15 to 20; stock, 10 to 20; sunflower, 15 to 20; sweet alyssum, 15 to 20; sweet William, 20 to 30; violet, 20 to 30; Virginian stock, 7 to 10; coniferous seeds, 30 to 50; white thorn, 1 year; holly, 1 year; stones of cherry, poach, and plum, 50 to 80 days; pips of apple, pear, and quince, 30 to 60.

SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. Barley,' 2£ to 2-J bushels; beans, 2 fco 2J bushels; buckwheat, or brank, 1J bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to transplant, 1 lb; canary, 3 pkgs; ! carrot in drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover. L 4 to 17 lbs; furze or gorse, for feed, 20 to 24 lbs; do. for single-line fencing, to sow one mile. 3 to 4 lbs; kohl rabi (turnip-rooted cabbage), to transplant. 1 lb; do., drillet], 4 lbs; linseed, for flax, 2h bushels;'linseed, for seed, 1-J- bushels; lucerne, broadcast, 20 lbs; do., drilled.'. 15 lbs; mustard, white, 1 pit; mangoldwurtzel, 5 lbs; oats. 3 to 4 bushbls; parsnip. 101 bs; rape or cole. 1 pkt.; rye. 2J to 3 bushels; rye grass (if drilled, one fourth less), 2to 2-J bushels; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter, 2J bushels; do., spring 2 to 2$ bushels; trifolium incarnatuin, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stiibble, 41bs; wheat. 2J to bushels.

SEI<:nS REQUIRED TO SOW GARDEN PLOTS. Asparagus, bed of 15 yards square. :! pt; beans, -broad, per row of dO foot. 1J pt; beet, row of 50 feet, 1 oz; broccoli, per -I square yards, k oz; brussels sprouts, per 4 square yards, oz; cabbage, bed of 8 squaro yards, -J oz ; can rots, drill of 120 feet, H oz; cauliflower, 4 squaro yards; oz; celery, 4 squaro yards, i oz; endive, 4 squaro yards, £ oz; kale, 4 square yards, \ oz; kidney beans, row 80 feet, } pt; leek. 2 square yards, £ oz; onions, 9 square yards. 1 oz; parsley, row of 100 feet, 1 oz; parsnips, drill of 100 feet, 1 oz; peas row of GO feet, 1 pt; potatoes, row of 80 feet, \ pt; radishes, 4 square yards, 1 oz; Savoy, 4 square yards. \ oz; spinach, drill of 60 feet, 1 oz; turnip, 6 square yards, 1 oz. TELLING THE WEATHER. The barometer rises for sovtherly n-ind (including from S.W. by the south to til eeastward); for dry or less wet weather, for less wind, or for more than one of these changes. Except on a few occasions, when rain comes from tho southward with strong wind. A thermometer falls for chango of wind toward any of the above directions. The barometer falls for northerly wind (including from N.E. by tho north to the westward); for wet weather in winter, for strong wind (in summer), or for more than one of changes. Except on a few occasions, when moderate wind with rain comes from the southward. A thermometer rises for chango of wind towards the north.