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TFJH GUIDE TO NATURE. 



A GARDEN, WITHOUT SOIL, IN A WINDOW. 



In center "agateware" pan cotton plants are growing in bits of crushed stone. In outer pans 

 beans are growing in sawdust. Fed by the nutrient solution. 



forated cloth or wire-netting" stretched elty or scientific experiment there are 



tightly across any receptacle that is kept 

 filled with the solution. The photo- 

 graphs accompanying this article show 

 some of these situations. But for nov- 



many others equally good. Plants may 

 even he suspended in mid-air and grown, 

 if the roots are kept moist with the solu- 

 tion. Apply the solution to the roots in 



THE BEAN GARDEN 

 Grown in sawdust in a dripping pan. 



