SEEDLINGS AT WORK
"John, have you walked the dog and fed the canary?" is an ordinary sensible question in itself; but what if a particularly meticulous wife should add—"Did you exercise the geranium and begonias?" The reader may well be puzzled with this addition, but Professor W. E. Burge, botanist at the University of Ilinois, has described a series of weight-lifting exercises for seedings which help them to develop into husky plants. In his greenhouse experiments, Professor Burge has found that plants which were exercised daily and forced to keep strict training regulations, were able to perform 40 per cent, more "work" by the end of the first 30 days' experiment, than non-enrollees. The exercises were accomplished by attaching tiny weights to the leaves of seedlings, causing the plants to strengthen their structure in response to the extra burden.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 15
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139SEEDLINGS AT WORK Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 15
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