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Show Radium and Radishes. T. Thorno Bakor, tho English horticulturist, horti-culturist, who has for two years been carrying on nn investigation of tho effect of radium upon the growth of plants, asserts that tho' best results aro obtained by mixing about ono seven-hundredth part of a grain of radium ra-dium with ono ton of earth. This mlnuto quantity can bo obtained by using tho residues left behind after radium has been extracted from minerals. min-erals. Mr, Baker says tho best results havo beon with carrots and radishes which In somo cases havo grown nearly near-ly six times as heavy as thoso raised In ordinary soil. |