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Show EXPLAINS GROWTH OF SEE English Scientist Has Discover That Carbonic Acid Gas Keeps Them From Sprouting. Why seeds should not sprout whil maturing, and why they should ll dormant long periods of time, art questions that occur to few who ad cept nature's ways as a matter q course. I Hut there must be some restraining cause to prevent growth in seeds, anil Franklin Kidd, Fellow of St. John's! college, Cambridge, reports in the pro-f ceedings of the Royal society that . iti is carbonic acid gas. J Removing the part of the seedl which this gas generates, it will! sprout before it is ripe; it will Eprout J if the high partial pressure of carbon f dioxide in the atmosphere be removed. I High temperatures remove these pres- I sures, hence seeds germinate best in warm weather. The arrested development, Mr Kidd; finds, is not due to lack of moisture,, but solely to the narcotic effect of the.-carbon the.-carbon dioxide. Planters who would hasten the sprouting process should increase the temperature of seeds and submit them, to the pressures of oxygen. |