NEW PHYSIOLOGY.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS, [Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Priss Association.] (Pi(■<■ ivod 8.0 a.m.) London, September 25. Interesting experiments Jiave been conducted at Dumfries for increasing plant growth by means of mercury vapour lamps, also by mixing radio-ac-tive material in the soil. Carrots influenced by ultra-violet rays gerniinated in eleven instead of twentysix days; maize, in eight instead of fifty-seven; strawberries increased their hearing twenty-five per cent, under the treatment, and flowers gave an increased foliage bloom.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 26 September 1913, Page 3
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77NEW PHYSIOLOGY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 22, 26 September 1913, Page 3
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