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Show QUICK GROWTH. Wonderful Increase la Weight of Germinating Ger-minating Seeds. The Bead of the globe turnip, according accord-ing to recent investigations, Increases its own weight fifteen times in a minute min-ute when growing. The seed of a globe turnip Is exceedingly minute, not being be-ing larger than tho twentieth part of an inch in diameter, and yet, in the course of a few months the seed will be elaborated by the soil and the atmosphere at-mosphere Into 27,000.000 times the bulk of the seed, and this in addition to a considerable bunch of leaves. On extremely ex-tremely favorable ground turnips have been found to Increase by growth 15,990 times the weight of th"ir seed each day they stood. The fungus is another instance of remarkably rapid growth. The great puff ball will attain at-tain the size of a pumpkin In a single night, and Llndley, the botanist, calculated cal-culated that the cells of which it is made up will multiply at the rate of 60,000,000 a minute. Some seeds germinate ger-minate in a very short period; tie cress In two days; spinach, turnips and kidney beans In three days; lettuce In four; melons and gourds in five; most of the grain seeds in a week; hyssop at the end of a month, others remaining remain-ing for a very long period without Ehowlng signs of germination. Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Enquirer. |