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Page 221
... plants are grown through narrow slits cut in the cloth . Pro- tected in this manner , the cinders retain suf- ficient moisture to require water " irrigation " only every other day . Plants are first sprouted in small seedbeds of sand ...
... plants are grown through narrow slits cut in the cloth . Pro- tected in this manner , the cinders retain suf- ficient moisture to require water " irrigation " only every other day . Plants are first sprouted in small seedbeds of sand ...
Page 224
... plants and the men who had so patiently cared for them . When the solutions were made up one day , some calcium chloride instead of cal- cium sulphate was inadvertently used in the mixture . The plants turned yellow from toxic poison ...
... plants and the men who had so patiently cared for them . When the solutions were made up one day , some calcium chloride instead of cal- cium sulphate was inadvertently used in the mixture . The plants turned yellow from toxic poison ...
Page 225
... plants survived . Soon they recovered their color and vigor , and only a few showed more than slight aftereffects from the brief absorp- tion of the chloride . Bees Imported to Pollinate Plants Although Ascension marshaled a variety of ...
... plants survived . Soon they recovered their color and vigor , and only a few showed more than slight aftereffects from the brief absorp- tion of the chloride . Bees Imported to Pollinate Plants Although Ascension marshaled a variety of ...
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