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IN Denmark during the past twenty years there I have been great advances in the development of the various branches of plant culture. The organisation and aims of this work are described by Prof.F. Kolpin Ravn in a recent number of the Scottish joirnal of Agriculture (vol. iii., No.. 2, April, 1920). The first Danish experiments on ilant culture were commenced in 1860 by B. S. Jorgensen, who took Rothamsted as his model. Later development fo!lowed various lines, but one of the most famms pioneers was P. Nielson, who in 1886 became director of the first State experiment station, and laid the foundation of the extensive State experimental work carried on at the present day. In 5893 the root experiments which had previously been instituted by the Society for the Improvement of Cultivated Plants were placed under the control of the State experiment stations, and in 1903 the same thing happened with the wheat and malt-barley experiments of the Royal Agricultural Society.
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Plant Culture in Denmark. Nature 105, 761 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105761a0
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