In the course of a paper r.ead at the International Botanists’ Congress at Ithaca (New York), .Dr. A. Ursprung, of Fribourg University, described the tremendous power, sometimes equalling 50001 b to the square inch, .whereby plants get water from their roots to their topmost leaves. His researches revealed plant cells as the most powerful suction pumas in the world, acting, however/ unlike the pulse, steadily and evenly, such action being due to the suction power ofbugar of some other cell substance. Ihurthermore there is sometimes J a difference of as much as 751 b to “the inch •hetween' the opposite aides of the same cell.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10314, 25 January 1927, Page 8
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