Show chills good for plants strange as it may seem a period ot of chilling is it a general requirement of 0 northern plants ripe were gathered in february march and april in the greenl greenhouses otiles oti ses of the lie united states department of agriculture as a result of experiments in the stimulation of plant growth by a period of chilling these plants were of the large hybrids developed from wild blueberries through 10 years of selection and breeding the hargest lii berries reached a diameter over three quarters of an inch at various times from to autumn the plants were placed in glass glahs frames braines artificially chilled arter after two or once months chilling they mere here brought into a greenhouse and began growing and flowering at once bille while similar plants that had not been through the chilling I 1 period cou coutant tint ed dormant in the greenhouse it ha only recently been discovered that a of chilling produces due es such beneficial results N Y times |