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  1. Root System

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    55
    NoS ID
    351061
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: A plant depends on its roots and its roots depend on... what? The results of this fascinating research into the root system could bring about a big saving in labour, expense and time.

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  2. Wild Oats

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    110
    NoS ID
    325482
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: The poisoned handshake. Farmers rogueing wild oats from their fields now use a special glove which squeezes herbicide onto the weed without affecting the rest of the crop.

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  3. Tana

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    108
    NoS ID
    325473
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: A system called hydroponics grows grass quickly and without soil. Neat layers of rapidly-grown turf can be transported to wherever they are needed without robbing natural pasture for fresh turf.

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  4. McGredy Roses

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    Calendar
    Issue no
    251
    NoS ID
    324170
    Story no
    4 / 7

    COI synopsis: In the warm moist soil of Northern Ireland the McGredy family help supply the world’s insatiable demand for roses in ever more varieties.

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  5. Sam McGredy

    Series name
    The Pacemakers
    Issue no
    26
    NoS ID
    327162
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: Sam McGredy discusses the cultivation and breeding of roses at his home in Northern Ireland.

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  6. Silica Gel

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    36
    NoS ID
    350945
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Helps you to say it with flowers - the same flowers for ever, and now it’s true. In a specially devised dance item we discover the latest way to preserve flowers. Decoration for today,...

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  7. Plants From Pollen Grains

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    30
    NoS ID
    350909
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Two British scientists have developed a technique for breeding plants from pollen grains instead of seeds; the process by-passing years of plant breeding could bring startling improvements in...

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  8. Plants From Pollen Grains

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    30
    NoS ID
    350905
    Story no
    3 / 5

    COI synopsis: Two British scientists have developed a technique for breeding plants from pollen grains instead of seeds; the process by-passing years of plant breeding could bring startling improvements in...

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  9. Spraying

    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    114
    NoS ID
    325495
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: As yet there is no real alternative to crop spraying if we are to make sure that we are the ones who eat the food we grow. A range of sprayers that produce an extremely fine mist of oil based...

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  10. Ethylene

    Date released
    1972
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    98
    NoS ID
    325442
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: When an apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head he blamed it all on gravity, but ethylene was just as much to blame. It makes fruit ripen, and causes fruit and leaves to fall. Research into the way...

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