How TO GET THE MOST 

 OUT OF THE GARDEN 



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 contained no 

 visible plant. 



The plant appears first as a small sprout and 

 then grows to tree-like proportions under the ma- 

 nipulation of the conjurer before the very eyes of 

 the astonished witnesses. 



I believe 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 



[VOLUME VII CHAPTER I] 



