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GERMINATION 



connects with the stalk ; the positive flesh taking its charge, 

 at the flower end, from the air. 



Vegetable Marrow. 



Cucumber. 



The Loofah and the Gourd are vegetable but certainly 

 not familiar to the cook. My reason for introducing them 

 is that they present a very remarkable contrast to the 

 Vegetable Marrow and the Cucumber ; nearly the whole 

 of their substance being negative and either poisonous or 

 fibroid or both. 



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Section of Gourd. 



The Secretion is only slightly acid and instead of staining 

 steel has a cleansing effect upon it. The positive (flower) end 

 connects with the central vertical line as far as the plug at the 

 posterior part of the stalk in the Figure. All the rest, so far as^I 

 could determine, is negative. The stalk was ridged and appeared to 

 carry several conductors communicating with the corrugations of 

 the stalk. 



The Loofah is just like a Cucumber filled with fibrous 

 connective tissue. 



