HOW THE GARDEN MAY BE 

 MADE MORE PRODUCTIVE 



A Preliminary Outline 



OF COURSE you have heard of the feat of 

 growing a mango tree, as performed by 

 the Hindu jugglers. 



The trick consists, according to those who 

 claim to have witnessed it, in causing a mango 

 tree to grow to fair proportions before the eyes 

 of the audience from a pot which at first con- 

 tained no visible plant. 



The plant appears first as a small sprout and 

 then grows to treelike proportions under the ma- 

 nipulation of the conjurer before the very eyes 

 of the astonished witnesses. 



Modern skepticism, aided by the camera, has 

 demonstrated that what the juggler really does 

 is to throw a hypnotic spell over his audience and 

 to cause them to confuse the magic picture of his 

 word conjuring with actual vision. But even if 

 we were to take the feat of mango growing at 

 its face value, it would still be no more mirac- 



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