Popular Science News Volume 35 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...prospects of profits almost in his grasp, invests is jlittle all; indue course of time, in the natural order of things, the caretaker returns, while the enthusiastic investor tries something "down town" in Los Angeles, or retraces with heavy heart his desolate path through the wilderness to the manufacturing east - The Cosmos Plant Intoxicates. This very tall plant with fringe-like leaves and large starry flowers, blooming late, and now often seen in cultivation, is intoxicating to insects, --so reported by Dr. J. M. Weir, Jr. The toxic quality exists in both the pollen and the nectar. Dr. Weir experimented on himself with the pollen and a decoction of the nectaries, and they produced accelerated pulse and a feeling of exhilaration. An injection into his arm threatened an abcess, but the swelling after several days passed away. Curing1 Magnesian Soils. A report to be issued by the U. S. Dept. Agriculture says: In our experiments in water, sand and soil cultures, covering a great many trials we found that magnesia in a soluble form in very small amounts was, in the absence of lime, very toxic to plants. By the addition of lime in a soluble form in amount equal to or in slight excess of the magnesia, the poisonous effect of the latter was eliminated. The plant was enabled to withstand any bad effects from a greatly increased amount of magnesia, provided the lime was also increased in an equal or greater degree. berries. The black one (Morus nigra) was never pruned, and grew in its normal shape. The other two (Morus alba) had been severely cut back to induce the "weeping" form on one, while the other was trimmed into a globe-shaped top. The accompanying six cuts of leaves were made from these three trees. Fig. 1 is from Morus nigra, and...