flowers, the roots respire, and the that a small tree will grow faster and (if a fruit tree) come acid gas through the leaves. The latter also take oxygen oxygen consumed is not integrally replaced by carbonic into bearing condition sooner than a large one; and. as the from the atmosphere; and if… … and not to the oxidation of carbonaceous matters which passed up to the annular top part, E, of the cone, exist in arable earth. The arrangement of apparatus which forms a conducting channel for them. Below the top part is again arranged a cylindrical wire net- is shown in Fig. 1. The vessel. A,…