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Show Making Treeo Eat. In tho Crimea scientists havo beon making queer experiments with fruit trees. Instead of trying to Increase i their growth and yield by heaping fer-! tlllzors around their roots, they havo been cutting, tiny holes Into tholr trunks and Inserting salts of Iron lu ' both solid and liquid form. An account ac-count of thoso curious experiments has ' beon read boforo tho Imperial socloty recently and It was declared by tho I men who havo been thus feeding tho troes that tho method has proved Itsolf to bo highly successful. Photographs wore shown of nino hundred troes that had been thus treated, and tho pictures pic-tures appeared to prove tho truth of tho allegations, for all tho trees wero beautiful wllli follago and flourishing excellently. |