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away from a 727 jet plane** about to take off, caused turnips to sprout much faster than those left silently in the ground. Pg 152 | away from a 727 jet plane** about to take off, caused turnips to sprout much faster than those left silently in the ground. Pg 152 | ||
- | Allotting one chamber for a control group, Mrs. Dorothy Retallack, a Danish professional organist and mezzo soprano in 1968 used the | + | ---Allotting one chamber for a control group, Mrs. Dorothy Retallack, a Danish professional organist and mezzo soprano in 1968 used the |
same plants, as in the first experiment, | same plants, as in the first experiment, | ||
setting them in identical soil and affording them equal amounts of water | setting them in identical soil and affording them equal amounts of water | ||
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hours in one chamber** and three hours intermittently in another. In the | hours in one chamber** and three hours intermittently in another. In the | ||
first chamber her plants were **stone dead within two weeks**. In the | first chamber her plants were **stone dead within two weeks**. In the | ||
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silence. | silence. | ||
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+ | ==== Plants and Electromagnetism ==== | ||
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+ | continually being **affected by wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum**, from earth, moon, planets, cosmos and from a proliferation of | ||
+ | man-made devices; only it remains to be established exactly which are | ||
+ | beneficial and which are harmful. Pg 163 | ||
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+ | ---1747, Jean Antoine Nollet, a French abbot and physics tutor, was informed by a German physicist in Wittenberg that | ||
+ | water, which normally issued drop by drop from a capillary tube, would | ||
+ | run out in a constant stream if the tube was electrified. Nollet put several plants in metallic pots next to a conductor and was intrigued to note that the rate of their transpiration | ||
+ | increased. In a long series of experiments, | ||
+ | only daffodils but sparrows, pigeons, and cats** and found they **lost weight | ||
+ | faster if electrified**. | ||
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+ | ---Italian physicist, Giuseppe Toaldo reported that in a row of jasmine bushes the two which were next to a lightning conductor grew thirty feet tall whereas all the | ||
+ | others attained only four feet. Pg 168 | ||
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+ | ---Bertholon, | ||
+ | an electrified watering can. He reported that his salads grew to an | ||
+ | extraordinary size. He also invented what he called an **" | ||
+ | it through plants growing in a field. "This instrument is | ||
+ | applicable to all kinds of vegetal production, everywhere, in all weather.” | ||
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+ | --As it had been known that sharp points | ||
+ | were especially attractive to atmospheric electricity, | ||
+ | that "**the sharp points of plants acted like lightning rods to collect | ||
+ | atmospheric electricity** and facilitate the exchange of charges of the air | ||
+ | and the ground." | ||
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+ | ---London Journal of the Horticultural Society published the " | ||
+ | garden plots, and, tried burying them under the soil. But of | ||
+ | Solly' | ||
+ | only nineteen were of any benefit, and nearly as many were harmful. | ||
+ | The conflicting results of these researchers made it obvious that the | ||
+ | amount, quality, and duration of electrical stimulation was of crucial | ||
+ | importance to each form of vegetal life. Pg 174 | ||
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+ | ---Lemstrom connected a series of flowers in metal pots to a static generator by an overhead network of wires sixteen inches above them and a | ||
+ | pole set into the soil as a ground. Other pots he "left to nature." | ||
+ | eight weeks, the electrified plants, showed gains in weight of nearly 50 | ||
+ | percent over their electrically deprived neighbors. When he transferred | ||
+ | his apparatus into a garden he not only more than doubled the yield of | ||
+ | strawberries but found them to be much sweeter; his harvest from barley | ||
+ | plants increased by one-third. He reported | ||
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