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ADVERTISEMENTS 



To Grow Plants with Sachs Tablets. 



The accompanying illustration showb 

 two points of view in the germination 

 of seeds. At the left is a lamp chimney 

 in which has been placed a roll of Cot- 

 ton, some black dress lining being 

 wrapped around it and the whole kept 

 moist by a solution of the Sachs tab- 

 lets. The cotton is to retain the mois- 

 ture and take it up by capillary attrac- 

 tion, and also to make an elastic pack- 

 ing that will "give" so as to supply the 



PLANTS GROWN IX LAMP CHIMNEY AND OX 

 rUMBLER BY AID OF THE TABLET SOLUTION. 



proper room between the roll and the 

 glass. Black dress lining is used be- 

 cause the black sets off the white roots 

 to good advantage, and it is so firm, and 

 hard that the tiny roots cannot get 

 among the fibers of the cloth, and thus 

 become knotted and gnarled as they 

 will when the cloth is rough or fuzzy. 

 Seeds thus grown in a lamp chimney 

 may be used to exemplify the Dar- 

 winian principle of the struggle for ex- 

 istence and the survival of the fittest, 

 and yet this principle is not wholly ap- 



plicable. As with people so with plants, 

 here is applicable the Shakespearean 

 teaching that "There is a tide in the 

 affairs of man which taken at its flood 

 leads on to fortune." Some of the seeds 

 that are far down the chimney will be 

 more successful than those near the 

 top, because chance has placed a clear 

 way in front of them. 



At the right, in the illustration, is 

 shown a tumbler filled with the tablet 

 solution over which has been tied some 

 mosquito netting. On this flax seeds 

 were sown and are growing luxuri- 

 antly. 



These nut ient tablets are supplied 

 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia : 

 Sound Beach, Connecticut, at the fol- 

 lowing prices : 



Box containing 30 tablets mailed 

 postpaid with full directions for 10c. 

 Prices in bulk as follows: 



500 Tablets, $1.25; 1,000 Tablets, 

 $2.00; 2,000 Tablets, $3.50; additional 

 1,000, $1.25. Less than 500 tablets not 

 supplied in bulk. 



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