ELECTRICITY IN RELATION TO HORTICULTURE. 2-3 



General Reinarks. 



GerDiination of seeds from six to ten days earlier in experimental 

 house. 



Foreign Seeds, such as Chinese and Syrian beans and Indian 

 maize, germinated in five or six days, and continued to grow consider- 

 ably faster than those in control house; strong stalks and good foliage. 



Chinese Beans (second sowing) germinated in five days (control 

 twelve days) and have grown 2 feet 1 inch in nine weeks; strong 

 healthy plants. 



Indian Corn (second sowing) germinated in five days, now nine 

 weeks old, height 5| inches, length of blade 8| inches. Control 

 germinated in three weeks, height now 4^ inches, length of blade 

 4^ inches. 



Cauliflotvers and Carrots have responded best of English seeds; 

 plants in experimental house- sturdy and strong growth. Carrots in 

 experimental house singled, those in control not yet large enough to 

 single though four weeks older. 



Mustard and Cress. — In both houses much the same. 



Lettuces. — Eather weak and long growth. 



Dwarf Vegetable Peas. — Germinated in experimental house in six 

 days (second sowing); height of peas now, nine weeks old in experi- 

 mental house, eleven inches. Germinated in control house in sixteen 

 days, height now (eleven weeks old) nine inches. 



Rose Tree which had flowered all summer and autumn under glass 

 I pruned as bare as a vine the end of November, and placed in experi- 

 mental house on December 7. It is now in leaf, with several buds and 

 one rose in full bloom. 



Carnation cutting taken in autumn put in experimental house Janu- 

 ary 24, made up to date (since January 24) 1 inch growth. 



Pelargonium cuttings made strong growth, leaves large and of good 

 colour. 



Ivy -leaved Pelargonium cut down to about 4 inches from root the 

 first week in December have made new shoots strong and healthy, 

 some now 2 feet in length. 



Strawberries. — Foliage thick, more so than in control house, those 

 pots nearest the lamp showing blossom; no appearance of blossom in 

 control house. 



Fig. — Leaves in experimental house much larger, more numerous, 

 and of stronger growth than in control house, but fruit not so healthy 

 in appearance ; the gardener attributes this to my neglect in watering 

 sufficiently at commencement of showing bud, and which did not occur 

 with plant in control house, he having pointed out the want of water- 

 before control tree showed any sign of bursting leaves or showing fruit. 

 To ascertain whether this is correct have moved tree from control 

 house into experimental house to see if figs still remain healthy and 

 continue to swell. 



Tomato seeds germinated in nine days in experimental house; 



