The last experiment was in regard to the effect of electricity on plant
life. He referred particularly to the fact that it was his aim to
discover the law of growth and atrophy among plants. Such a discovery
had a great bearing on the future of agriculture and would revolutionise
world thought. Electricity, he explained and illustrated, would promote
or retard the growth of life by reaction. In England and other countries
electricity had been applied to agriculture but without exact knowledge
of its varying effect on plant life. He then showed by another apparatus
of extreme delicacy that electricity might retard and even repel as well
as promote the growth of plant life. But if the law of growth and decay
could be ascertained, it was possible to regulate the control of life
under most varied conditions.
--_Amrita Bazar Patrika_, 29-1-1918.