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Updated: May 15, 2025
A day or two before, I had wrapped the dear old doll in her own shawl and quietly laid her I am half ashamed to tell it in the garden-earth under the tree that shaded my old window. I had no companion left but my bird, and him I carried with me in his cage.
Schubler found that in seventy-two hours thoroughly dried humus, which is capable of taking up twice its own weight of water in the liquid state, absorbed from the atmosphere only twelve per cent. of its weight of humidity; garden-earth five and one-fifth per cent. and ordinary cultivated soil two and one-third per cent.
The question was discussed in the mediæval Council of Maçon, and the position taken that woman was no more entitled to rank as human, because she brought forth men, than the garden-earth could take rank with the fruit and flowers it bore.
In other experiments with carefully heat-dried field-soil, the absorption was five per cent. in eighty-four hours, and when the water was first warmed to secure the complete saturation of the air, air-dried garden-earth absorbed five and one-tenth per cent. in seventy-two hours. In nature, the conditions are never so favorable to the absorption of vapor as in those experiments.
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