The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-08
How Flowers Are DrusSed .'
 To Force Them Into Bloom

Chicago Record Herald.
 Parss.. Oct. n.-we saw drunken man ro starrerinS by--a most rare thing m Saris.ss ,a
 r .svVnas A vice Is drunkenness" l said fo my companion. s,I
 T made fifty living organisms as drunk As boiled owls today he ansWe,eu. ssWhen I got through tempting them they were unite paraayzed. Yet l holo tna' nv act was meritorious and theirs Quite tlameless." .a
 .sYou are a horticulturist! saio "what do you mean" and then ne polo me Inc strange up-to-date tale or ms traos.
 .'The living things that l mace uiu. ..1 today were lilac plants" he salo. made them drunk with ether. for their ,ncd and mine, am one of the nrst ,f French horticulturists to pracuce the ,ew art as an everyday matter Of ousi- aess."
 What art?''
 ssThe art of forcing and 'retarding the development of plants at will Aided py he application of industrial cold 1t IS bound to revolutionize the production or lowers and fruits out of season.
 Thus he explained the mater 70 me:
 ssTo produce an elegant plant at the minimum cost and to bring it to the mar ket at the exact hour desired by the buy ,r--such is the new formula of horticult- are at the opening of the twentieth cen- .irry'' he said These words are not my own. They are from the discourse Of Count Oswald de Kercllove. president of the Royal Society of Agriculture and Botany of Gand, at the opening of its recent annual exposition, in which quan- aties of object lessons in the new art were exposed and debated on.
 s'Never mind the season; the up-to-daee trower must learn how to furnish on de- hand. We do it. Something had been lone already by the artful use of artificial ,old. Then came the great discovery of fohannsen, professor fvegetable phy- riology of the Superior School of Agricul- aire of Copenhagen. of the anaesthesia of blants."
 Art of Doping.
 "As one might say, the art of doping hem or making them dead drunk?"
 Exactly. In the present-day state oi AioIogy there is nothing surprising. in he faculty of plants to enter into the condition of drunkenness" continued my sompanton. Profound analogies exist between plants. animals and human be- ngs. Leclerc of Tours tipsified the sen tftfve plant with opium in 1850. In 1870 Dr. Heckel experimented with chloroform md ether on the begonia and gratiola. Paul Bert analysed the mechanism of he movements and the states of the motor cells of the sensitive plant under the influence of ether and chloroform. n 1878 Claude Bernard wrote his Lessons pn the Phenomena of Life Common to Animals and Vegetables" in which he demonstrated that the movements of pro- boplasm in plant cells Is interrupted by these anaesthetics. He showed that nk1 all ton of carbonic acid in the green parts. Tn 1886 the Finnish botanist, Arloing, showed that very different effects, excit- Ing or stupefying, can be produced by diff terent doses of ether sprinkled in water bn the leaves or allowed to soak to the roots of the sensitive plant"
 And so we are led to the wonderful lew art of forcing plants my making them arunk?'' I said. to hurry him on.
 Gently" he replied. Ask rather what correlation can .be established between this sending to sleep of plants and their premature entrance into vegetation. This ls the discovery of Professor Johannsen Sf Copenhagen.
 Applying an Anaesthetic.
 His experiments" continued my in- formant, proved clearly that 6 sufficient ly strong dose of ether will suppress the activity of condensation in maturing organs, and, as further result, he was led to experiments which had for object to suspend the period of repose itself by snaesthetics. As early as 1893, by htherizing willow branches. the tubers oi potatoes and other plants, he brought about their rapid entrance into veg. citation. Any one can repeat the experi- ence today.
 How?' I asked
 It, Is sufficient to your little wiI,ov branches under a receiver along with , dose of four-tenths of a cubic centime ter or ether per cubic decimeter of tb. receivers capacity. You leave the willow branches alone with their done unde, the receiver for twenty-four hours. Takt them out. plunge them into water. anC then put them in a warm hothouse ol other equally warm place. After two days the covers of the buds will heqIr coming out. This experience can be triet rom August to November, after whicf ume' the willow coming out of it's stat or repose. the ether will have no furthe, acceierating influence on it Ouantitie, or otner spring Towering plants give fht same results. the lilac the snowbalI. tb, azalia, the deutzia the China plum. anf the glycine in particular"
 DO that was what you were doing f. your nity lilac plants?" I said. "You are going to make them bloom In tbo ers, week in November?" All
 Buds Must Be Formed.
 xes' replied my horticulturist. "and How come 10 practical observations. It we wish to operate successfully. we n,us, make sure O that the buds ara co-o' pleteiy formed. the wood ripened bv tbe neat neat or August C'aoute'), and the vepeta. uon t arrested. For this reason. in nrsc. slce @: 1t is best to wait until the f,rs, a.os.s ..osss nave suspended all exterior veg. eS ota,aon. tS): We really provoke this arrest 0i vegetation by taking up the shrubs