RADIUM PROMOTES GROWTH.
VEGETABLES INCREASED FOURFOLD. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) London, May SO. Experiments have been made with the residues of minerals from which radium has been extracted to ascertain the Stimulating effect on plant growth. They made wheat and barley grow with great rapidity, and produced radishes ■'and caiTots six times the size of those grown under ordinary conditions.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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62RADIUM PROMOTES GROWTH. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12253, 1 June 1914, Page 5
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