RADIUM IN THE GARDEN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 7

RADIUM IN THE GARDEN.

RESULT OF SEEDLING EXPERIMENTS.

In one of the many little warden laboratories that have sprung in and near London experiments carried on tor two years on radium and radium water as an alleged miracle worker in tbe garden and farm are reaching a triumphant conclusion this spring. Seeing is believing. In & South of London suburb both in the house and m the garden are to be seen side by side groups of flowerpots and pans sown with mustard seed. Some of these pots have been grown in a soil mixed with radium refuse, some have been watered with radium water, and some grown m ordinary soil. To the eye the results are quite conclusive. In some of the radium pots every single seed has germinated and g*own mto a lusty sapling, and the older the plants the more remarkable is their superiority to those that have had no radium treatment. The superiority is in some cases—notably with such root nlants as radishes—loo per cent. Some of the biggest London seedsmen are mak'ng similar, experiments and find the results very .trikine (says the Daily Mail). * * ' °