Improvements in Preserving Seeds and Plants from the Action of Parasites and Hastening the Germination and Fertilization of Seeds.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 21st Sept., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Preserving Seeds and Plants from the Action of
Parasites and Hastening the Germination and Fertilization of
Seeds.
We, Dr. PIERRE LUCIEN QUARANTE of 44 Avenue de Wagram and Madame
VEUVE D'ESCALONNE née Caroline Elisabeth Le Revert Gentlewoman, of 83, Avenue
de Wagram, Paris France do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:
Our Invention relates to an improved method or means of hastening the germination
and fertilization of seeds and of preserving seeds and plants from the action of
parasites. In order to protect seeds from the attacks of parasites, when sown in the
ground, they should be steeped in antiseptic and fertilizing liquids with which the
young plants should also be watered, with a similar object. It is known that rust,
smut, and ergot are diseases which chiefly attack gramineal plants; that beet and
edible plants have their cryptograms or fungi that the potato has its parasites which
destroy or render it useless; and that the vine has many parasites which have
enormously diminished its production. After experiments with various chemical
agents with a view to protect the seed and hasten its germination as well as to destroy
the cryptograms and parasites which attack herbaceous plants and shrubs, it has been
found that by immersing seeds in solutions of proper strength of the salts hereinafter
specified, their germination is quickened which is a very important item to the
grower the plants obtained are also much more vigorous, and plants and shrubs
watered with these liquids either from above or by pouring around the roots, are
rendered much stronger and better able to resist destructive influences.
This Invention consists in the application of a combination of the salts hereafter
mentioned which combine both antiseptic and preservative properties. To this end,
the seed is steeped in a mixture of any salts of aluminium, lead, and calcium, with
which the seed becomes encrusted and this coating or crust acts as a fertilizer and
preserves the seed from the attacks of parasites.

page_text: nor to the proportions of the several elements of the composition; but the following,
which will be found to afford good results, may be given as an example ;—
Acetate of aluminum
Acetate of lead
-
15 parts
70
"
-
"
Iceland spar or carbonate of lime
15
The matters are mixed and dissolved in a suitable quantity of water, according to
the effect desired.
Each of the antiseptic agents constituting the above combination, if employed
separately, will increase the proportion of seed germinated from 10% to 15% above
that obtainable by any other process hitherto employed, while by their combination an
increase of at least 25% and upwards in the germination of the seed, and conse-
quently of the crop, is obtainable, and all the seeds germinate, including those which
are bruised or crushed, if the germ has not been destroyed.
P. L. QUARANTE.
MADAME VEUVE
D'ESCALONNE.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Preserving Seeds and Plants from the Action of
Parasites and Hastening the Germination and Fertilization of
Seeds.
We, Dr. PIERRE LUCIEN QUARANTE of 44 Avenue de Wagram and Madame
VEUVE D'ESCALONNE, née Caroline Elisabeth Le Revert, Gentlewoman of
83 Avenue de Wagram, Paris, France, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to an improved method or means of hastening in a practical
manner the germination and fertilization of seeds and of preserving seeds and plants
from the action of parasites.
In order rotect seeds from the attacks of parasites, when sown in the ground,
they shor'
steeped in antiseptic and fertilizing liquids with which the young
plants sho
also be watered with a similar object. It is known that rust, smut, and
ergot are seases which chiefly attack gramineal plants; that beet and edible
plants have their cryptograms or fungi; that the potato has its parasites which destroy
or render it useless; and that the vine has many parasites which have enormously
diminished its production.
After experiments with various chemical agents with a view to protect the seed and
hasten its germination, as well as to destroy the cryptograms and parasites which
attack herbaceous plants and shrubs, we have found that by immersing seeds in
solutions of proper strength of the salts hereinafter specified, their germination is
quickened, which is a very important item to the grower, the plants obtained are also
much more vigorous, and plants and shrubs watered with these liquids either from above
or by filling a trench around the foot of the plant are rendered much stronger and
better able to resist destructive influences.
This invention consists in the application of a combination of the salts hereafter
mentioned, which combine antiseptic and preservative properties. To this end, the
seed is steeped in a mixture of any salts of aluminum, lead, and calcium, whereby the
seed becomes encrusted therewith and this coating or crust acts as a fertilizer and
preserves the seed from the attacks of parasites.
It is not intended to limit the invention to any particular salts of the above bases,
nor to the proportions of the several elements of the composition; but the following,
which will be found to afford good results, may be given as an example.
Santota of alumina
15 marts

page_text: Each of the antiseptic agents constituting the above combination, if employed
separately, will increase the proportion of seed germinated from 10% to 15% above
that obtainable by any other process hitherto employed, while by their combination an
increase of at least 25% and upwards in the germination of the seed, and con-
sequently of the crop, is obtainable, and all the seeds germinate including those which
are bruised or crushed, if the germ has not been destroyed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
The method of hastening the germination and fertilization of seeds and of
protecting seeds and plants from the action of parasites, which consists in the
application thereto of a combination in any suitable proportion of salts of aluminum,
lead, and calcium, substantially as hereinbefore specified.