Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-17 | Page 2 | Growth of the Turnip Seed

Growth of the Turnip Seed. The seed of a globe turnip is exceedingly exceed-ingly minute, not larger, perhaps, than the twentieth part of an inch in diameter, diame-ter, and yet in the course of a few months this seed will be elaborated by the soil and the atmosphere into 27,000,-000 27,000,-000 of times its original bulk, and this in addition to a considerable bunch of leaves. Dr. Desaguliers has made some experiments proving that, in an average condition, a turnip seed may increase its own weight fifteen times iu a minute. By an actual experiment, made on peat ground, turnips have been found to increase in-crease by growth 13.990 times the weight of their seeds each day they stood upon it. Now York Telegram. "