LUTHER BURBANK 



ously analogous to the unconsciousness of the 

 narcotized human subject. 



But so soon as the closed case in which plant 

 and narcotizing fumes are confined is removed 

 and the plants resume normal relations with soil 

 and air, they take on at once a relatively pro- 

 digious and quite unprecedented capacity for 

 growth, shooting upward at a rate that soon sends 

 them far above their companion plants that have 

 not been similarly put to sleep. 



This obviously suggests that the rapid growth 

 of the young shoots of herbs and trees in the 

 springtime is probably enhanced greatly by the 

 period of rest out of which the buds have just 

 come. And the further corollary suggests itself 

 that the period of rest forced upon a seedling 

 that is, for example, dug up in Japan and shipped 

 half round the world may ultimately prove of 

 benefit to the seedling, stimulating it to such 

 growth as it would not have found possible had 

 not the period of dormancy been forced upon it. 

 FREEZING "RESTS" ANIMAL TISSUES 



An analogy from the animal world which 

 seems to have application is furnished by the re- 

 cent experiments made at the Rockefeller Insti- 

 tute in New York by Doctors Montrose W. Bur- 

 rows and Alexis Carrel. 



In the course of their extraordinary tests in 



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