PREFACE 



THE subject of Electro-culture has now reached a stage at 

 which it is of real interest to the man-in- the-street. This 

 little book is intended to serve a double purpose : to in- 

 terest the general reader, and at the same time to give the 

 farmer, the market-gardener, and the amateur horticulturist, a 

 clear idea of what has been and is being done in the application 

 of Electricity to growing plants. 



The author is indebted to Charles R. Gibson, F.R.S.E., for 

 suggestions made in reading over the MS. of this small work; 

 also to Miss Young, of Lincluden, and to William Aitken for some 

 of the illustrations. 



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