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HYDROPONICS, or soil-less culture, has made considerable progress during the last ten years, especially in America and in areas where heat and drought make it difficult to produce vegetables under ordinary conditions of soil cultivation. While the first edition of Ellis and Swaney's book catered mainly for the amateur or general reader, Eastwood's revision deals largely with the commercial side. This revision has been so drastic that little of the original text remains ; but there is no indication of this in the foreword or elsewhere, thus failing to give due credit to the original authors.
Soilless Growth of Plants
By Carleton Ellis M. W. Swaney. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Tom Eastwood. Pp. x+277. (New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1947.) 28s. 6d. net.
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B., W. Soilless Growth of Plants. Nature 162, 717 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162717b0
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