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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Inorganic Plant Poisons and Stimulants
Winifred Elsie Brenchley
165 pages~3 hr 17 min read61 chapters$4.99
Does a trace of copper poison a plant or spur it to grow? Winifred Brenchley answers with water cultures, sand cultures, and field experiments, measuring how metals stunt or stimulate root and leaf. A careful laboratory account of the fine line between toxin and tonic in the soil. Learn what really feeds and what quietly harms.
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61 chapters
- 1INORGANIC PLANT POISONS AND STIMULANTS
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 6CHAPTER II METHODS OF WORKING
- 7I. Discussion of Methods.
- 81. Water cultures.
- 92. Sand cultures.
- 103. Soil cultures in pots.
- 114. Field experiments.
- 12II. Details of Methods.
- 13CHAPTER III EFFECT OF COPPER COMPOUNDS
- 14I. Presence of Copper in Plants.
- 15II. Effect of Copper on the Growth of Higher Plants.
- 161. Toxic effect.
- 172. Effect of copper on germination.
- 183. Does copper stimulate higher plants?
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