. Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society . Fig. 5.—Wheat Growing in Unelectrified Portion of Fieldat Bevington, near Evesham, 1909. #. Fig. 7.—Potatoes Growing in Unelectrified Portion of Fieldat Bevington, near Evesham, 1909. Agriculture and Horticulture. 25 may have upon growing vegetation it is as yet impossible to sayanything very definite. All kinds of suggestions have been advancedto explain the part of electricity in the life of the plant. Onetheory is in favour of the view that the electric current assistsin the formation of starch by the green plant, even though li
. Journal of the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society . Fig. 5.—Wheat Growing in Unelectrified Portion of Fieldat Bevington, near Evesham, 1909. #. Fig. 7.—Potatoes Growing in Unelectrified Portion of Fieldat Bevington, near Evesham, 1909. Agriculture and Horticulture. 25 may have upon growing vegetation it is as yet impossible to sayanything very definite. All kinds of suggestions have been advancedto explain the part of electricity in the life of the plant. Onetheory is in favour of the view that the electric current assistsin the formation of starch by the green plant, even though lightbe absent. Another conception deals with the absorption ofinsoluble food by the plant; electricity, it is said, increases thepower of vegetation to imbibe particular elements. Finally, ithas been supposed that electricity has a nitrifying effect on thesoil, in this way causing a manurial change in the character of theland. These are only three suggestions out of many which have beenadvanced to explain a matter which will probably occupy. ourbotanical physiologists for some time to come. After all thereis no reason why it should be necessary to
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