1. In the so-called “Home” destrict of
Tokinashi-seed production in Kyoto prefecture, the seed-growers usually obtain their crops through harvesting the seeds at more or less premature condition. To make clear the exact nature of the above conventional method of seed-growing, the author examined various kinds of seeds obtained through the following ways: seeds were obtained from the individual seeding-branches on the same plant, collecting on the two different dates of maturity, at full-and pre-maturing respectively; and, moreover, each infloiescence-branch was divided into the top and basal portions, and the seeds were collected from those individual portions for examination.
2. The weight of seeds collected at their full maturity was clearly heavier than that of the premature harvesting. The seeds collected evern on the same date of harvesting differed also in their average weight between the top and basal setting within the same individual inflorescence, revealing that the seeds from the top portion were more or less lighter in weight than those from the basal portion. Again, there had been noticed the similar situation established among different inflorescence branches within the same plant, i.e., the seeds set on the upper branches of primary order were larger than those on the lower or secondary branches.
3. It was also clearly demonstrated that the growing condition of the young seedling was well correlated with the weight or size of seed, from which the seedling plant developed.
4. Bolting behaviors of those plants grown up from various kinds of seeds, such' as above stated, had shown more or less distinct difference' among each others. Generally speaking, plants grown up from the heavier seeds attained earlier to the bolting stage (including a higher percentage of bclters among the population), than the comparable plants derived from the lighter or smaller seeds. So that the premature harvesting of
Tokinashi-seeds may be duely ascribed to be one of the practicable means of seed production for suppressing the premature bolting and obtaining the larger crop of root.
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