Germination Periods.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 April 1913, Page 4

Germination Periods.

♦ APPROXIMATE TIME TAKEN. \Yo assume that the seeds aro grown iii the open borders, without any artificial assistance, but under favourable circumstances; much depends 011 the age of the seed and the 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, 7 to 14; oats, 9 to 16; wheat, 9to 16; rape, 10 to 14; man-gel-wurzel, 20 to 30.

VEGETARLE SEEDS.—Asparagus 20 to 30 days; broad beans, 12 to 16; French beans, 16 to 20; beet, 20 to 30; broccoli, 10 to 13; cauliflower, 10 to 15; cabbage, 7 to 10; carrot, 18 t<; 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 14; 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.

FLOWER. SEEDS.—Aster, 10 to 18 days; auricula, 15 to 30; balsam. 10 to 14 ; candytuft, 7 to 10; Canterbury boll, 15 to 20; carnation, 20 to 30; chrysanthemum, 14 to 20; cockscomb, 7 to 14; convolvulus. 7 to 14; cowslip, 15 to 20; daisy, 15 to 20; egg plant, 10 to 11; everlasting flowers, 14 to 20; forget-me-not, 15 to 20; heartsease, 15 to 20; hollyhock, 15 to 20; jacobea. 15 to 20; 'a.rkspur, 10 to 20; lobelia, 20 to 30; lupins. 16 to 20; marigold (French), 10 to 14; marvel of Peru, 15 to 20; iiignonette, 20 to 30; 10 to 14; passionflowers, 40 to 50; peas, sweet, 10 to 14; pink and picoleo, 30 to 40; polyanthus, 15 to 20; poppy, 10 to 15; primrose, 15 to 20; rocket. 15 i>o 20; stock, 10 to 20; .sunflower, 15 to 20; sweet alyssum, io to 20; sweet William, 20 to 30; violet, 20 to 30; Virginian stock, 7 io 10; coniferous seeds, 30 to 50; white thorn, 1 year; holly, 1 year; stones of cherry, peach, and plum, "0 to 80 days; pips of apple, pear, i.nd quince, 30 to 60. SEEDS REQUIRED TO SOW AN ACRE. Barloy, 2£ to 1\ bushels; beans, 2 10 2\ bushels; buckwheat, or forank, 1 \ bushels; cabbage (drumhead), to I transplant, 1 lb; canaiy, 3 pkgs; < uTot iii drills, 8 to 12 lbs; clover, It 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), i> transplant, 1 lb; do., drilled, 4 ! ! >s; linseed, for flax, 2J bushels; Uαs'.'ed. for seed, 1J bushels; lucerne, ! i:oadcaet, 20 lbs; do., drilled, 15 r>s; mustard, white, 1 pkt; mangold' 1 urtzel, 5 lbs: oats, 3 to 4 bushels; iirsnip, lOlbs; rape or cole. 1 pkt.; re, 2J to 3 bushels; rye grasß (if drilled, one fourth less), 2 to 2J bus--1:4s; sainfoin, giant, 5 bushels; tares, winter. 2} bushels; do., spring '2 to 2i bushels; trifolium incarna linn, 24 lbs; turnip, 2 to 3 lbs; turnip stubble, 41bs; wheat, 2J to 21 l.'.ishels. s:<:eds required to sow garden PLOTS. Asparagus, boil of 15 yards square ;. pt; beans, broad, per row of rfO iV-'t, H pt; beet, row of 50 feet, 1 (■■.; broccoli, per 4 square yards, h (■■',\ brussels sprouts, per 4 square ynils, \ osi; cabbage, bod of 8 squaro y :rds, -J oz ;■ canrots, drill of 120 feet, 11 oz; cauliflower, 4 square yards;

oz; celery, -1 squaro yards, J oz; ( :](HvO, 4 square yards, £ oz; kalo, ! square yards, £ oz; kidney beans, i :\v 80 feet, i pt; leek, 2 squaro yards. J oz; onions, 9 square yards. ] oz; parsley, row of 100 feet, 1 oz; ji irsnips. drill of 100 feet. 1 oz ; poas r< \v of GO feet, 1 pt; potatoes, row <;f 80 foot, J pfc; radishes, 4 square v.irds, 1 oz; Savoy, 4 square yards. ' itz; spinach, drill of 60 feet, 1 oz; lirnip, 6 square yards, 1 oz. TELLING THE WEATHER. The barometer rises'for soH-herly i , . iud (including from S.W. by the .*:. nth to th oeastward); for dry or !.. s wet weather, for loss wind, or i'i-r more than one of these changes, l-'-ccopt on a few occasions, when rain ■v.mlios from the sou thwart! with .s' rong wind. A thermometer falls for change of v ;ikl toward nny of tho above directi (US.

Tho barometer falls for northerly wind (including from N.E. by the i:;>rtli to the westward); for wot*weatlu'r in winter, for strong wind (in f:miner), or for more than ono of 1l:cso changes. Except on a few or-casions, when moderate wind wjth 1 'in coinos from the southward. A thermometer rises for change of wind towards the north.