Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Action of Fog on Plants. [ARTICLE]

Action of Fog on Plants.

At a recent meeting of the Royal Botanic Society the secretary said that the action of fogs on plants was most felt by those tropical plants in the society’s houses of which the natural habitat was one exposed to sunshine. Plants growing in forests or under tree shade did not so directly feel the want of light; butthen, again, a London or town fog not only shaded the plants, but contained smoke, sulph,ur, and other deleterious agents, whidh were, perhaps, as deadly to vegetable vitality as: absence of light. Soft, tenderleiv6d plants, and aquatics, such as the Victoria regia, suffered more from than any class of plants he knew of. tXtv cannot prevent extravagance; and porha; s it is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person. who knows better what to do with it; it- i*. therefoie, not lost.