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Updated: July 3, 2025
Within myself I feel the pain of those plant-cells; I realize their agony in growing in this infected spot without crushing one another. I am filled with a desire to tear up my handkerchief, and bandage this ear of wheat. But I feel that there is no remedy for a single ear of wheat, and that humanly it would be an act of folly to attempt this cure.
For if the frost can be kept in, after it has taken possession, there will not be that frequent alternation between freezing and thawing which does the harm to the plant. For it is not freezing, understand, that is responsible for the mischief, but the alternation of conditions. These cause a rupture of plant-cells, and that is what does the harm.
This mantle sometimes soft like jelly, sometimes as tough as leather, and sometimes as stiff as cartilage has a number of peculiarities. The most remarkable of them is that it consists of a woody matter, cellulose the same vegetal substance that forms the stiff envelopes of the plant-cells, the substance of the wood.
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