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...Physiologist Gericke suspects that plants, like people, take more food than they need for growth. He has therefore, experimented with balanced rations, which led to a method of growing floral plants in water solutions containing only the essential growth elements. He has also developed a method of growing young tomato plants in cold frames; feeding them special fertilizers; producing a greater crop than the untreated controls...
...proposed tomato tariff, however, was particularly piquant because among other Congressional candidates in Florida required to sign the pledge was Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, whose stout Democratic heart throbbed defiance all his life long at Protection, demanding either Free Trade or a Tariff-For-Revenue-Only...
...Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...beach, heedless of sprawling crowds that bathed, babbled and ebbed home to rest. She watched the grim ocean, lamenting. At seven o'clock of the third evening, Mrs. Ravmitzky stood at the foot of 21st Street, still muttering her lament. Occasionally a barrel stave or water-logged tomato was carried to her feet by the surf. In the lift of one wave she thought she saw her son, lying on his side with arms beseeching; but the vision passed as the wave fell in a dull smother. The next wave was empty. Mrs. Ravmitzky watched its cruel curve...
...Four slices of bread, boiled rice, tomato salad, strawberry shortcake, a pint of vanilla ice cream and raspberry soda...