Re: Meatloaf Aids Germination

Funny, I would have expected the wallflowers to prefer Jacob Dylan...

Sorry, couldn't resist!
Nancy Lowe
Arkansas, zone 7, where too much basketball on TV is rotting my brain.

>From: LONDE@aol.com
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Meatloaf Aids Germination
>Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:40:52 EST
>
>A little horticultural humor.  --Janis
>
>From ArcaMax WeirdNews for March 17, 2000
>
> >  British researchers have found that playing Meatloaf's
> >  "Bat Out Of Hell" non-stop makes plants grow faster. Biologists
> >  at the University of Sussex measured the germination rates of
> >  10 species of plants -- including wallflowers, basil, tobacco
> >  and carrots -- in response to a week of silence, pop music,
> >  classical music or the human voice. Wallflower seeds exposed
> >  to Meatloaf sprouted two days earlier than those in silent
> >  conditions.
> >     Professor Peter Scott says the rock music may have helped
> >  the plants because of the heat generated by a constant level
> >  of sound.
>
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