Plants in health and disease : being an abstract of a course of lectures delivered in the University of Manchester during the session 1915-16 / by F.E. Weiss, A.D. Imms and Wilfrid Robinson.

Abstract

development of foliage he may be endangering the production of flowers. It is a' common practice to reduce the supply of water so as to encourage the formation of flower buds. Some of our common British fruit trees when grown in tropical climes will develop into luxuriant trees with a wealth of foliage, but lack the flowers essential for the production of fruit. * " The Spirit of the Soil." An account of the nitrogen fixation in the soil by bacteria, and of the production of auximones.as promoted by bacterised peat.