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-==== ESP, or extrasensory perception ====
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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
-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,
 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
 first chamber her plants were **stone dead within two weeks**. In the
-second ·chamber, the plants were much healthier than controls left in
+second chamber, the plants were much healthier than controls left in
 silence.
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 **the nearest one almost embracing the speaker**.
---Jazz caused her a real surprise. When her plants heard recordings as
-varied as Duke Ellington's "Soul Call" and two discs by Louis Arm-
-strong, 55 percent of the plants leaned fifteen to twenty degrees toward
-the speaker, and growth was more abundant than in the silent chamber. Pg 156
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+==== Plants and Electromagnetism ====
+<html><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/5603665188/" title="Picture 13 by _foam, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5230/5603665188_f014029cea_s.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="Picture 13"></a></html>---Just as plants respond to the wavelengths of music, so also are they
+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
+---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, Nollet carefully weighed **not
+only daffodils but sparrows, pigeons, and cats** and found they **lost weight
+faster if electrified**.
+---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
+---Bertholon, had a gardener stand on a slab of insulating material and sprinkle vegetables from
+an electrified watering can. He reported that his salads grew to an
+extraordinary size. He also invented what he called an **"electrovegetometer"** to collect atmospheric electricity by means ot an antenna, and pass
+it through plants growing in a field. "This instrument is
+applicable to all kinds of vegetal production, everywhere, in all weather.”
+--As it had been known that sharp points
+were especially attractive to atmospheric electricity, Finish scientist Lemstrom reasoned
+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."  Pg 175
+---London Journal of the Horticultural Society published the "**Influence of Electricity on Vegetation**" by an agronomist, Edward Solly, who, suspended wires in the air over
+garden plots, and, tried burying them under the soil. But of
+Solly's seventy experiments with various grains, vegetables, and flowers,
+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
+---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." After
+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  his success in 1902 in a book //Electro Cultur// The English translation of Lemstrom's book, entitled //**Electricity in
+Agriculture and Horticulture**//.  Pg 176
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+==== Force Fields, Humans and Plants ====
+--- engineers, unlike
+researchers in pure science, are less concerned with why or how some-
+thing works than with whether it will work. This attitude can free them
+from the shackles of theory, which in the history of science has often
+caused pedants to disregard the brilliant new findings of geniuses be-
+cause there was no theoretical basis to support them.
+---Dr. George Starr White, pubished //Cosmoelectric Culture//, discovered that metals like iron and tin could facilitate
+plant growth if bright pieces were dangled from fruit trees.Where Hay attached metallic **Christmas tree
+balls to tomato plants**, they would bear their fruits earlier than normal.
+---electronic engineer James Lee Scribner believes that : it is the electron that is responsible before the photosynthesis can take
+place, for it is the electron that magnetizes the chlorophyll in the plant
+cell that makes it possible for the photon to assert itself and become a
+part of the plant in the form of solar energy. It is also this magnetism that
+draws the molecules of oxygen into the ever expanding chlorophyll cells
+of the plant, and so we must assume that moisture is in no way integrated into the plant through any absorption process whatsoever, for the integration of moisture is purely an electronic one. The so-called root pressure
+(moisture droplets) appearing on plant surfaces is not root pressure at all,
+but an abundance of electrons working with the rather excessive water
+energy in the bed.