Howard Roger Garis

Name: The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1
Author: Howard Roger Garis

The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

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“The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1”, published in 1905, is a work by Howard Roger Garis. It explores elements such as professor, plant and Adams.

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ Adams didn't know whether to laugh or be alarmed.
He mounted the ladder, and stood in amazement before the result of the professor's work as he looked down into the depth of the gigantic, flower, increased a hundred times in size.
He was aware of a strange, sickish-sweet odor that seemed to steal over his senses. It was lulling him to sleep, and he fought against it. Then he looked down and saw that the huge hairs or filaments with which the tube was lined were in violent motion. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ Meanwhile the cover of the plant closed down.
"Why, it's a regular fly-trap, isn't it?" remarked Adams, much surprised.
"It is," replied the professor. "The plant lives off the insects it captures. It absorbs them, digests them, and, when it is hungry again, catches more."
"Where'd you get such an uncanny thing?" asked Adams, moving away from the plant as if he feared it might take a sample bite out of him.
"A friend sent it to me from Brazil."
"But you're not going to keep it, I hope."
"I certainly am," rejoined Professor Jonkin. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ AFTER Professor Jeptha Jonkin had, by skilful grafting and care, succeeded in raising a single tree that produced, at different seasons, apples, oranges, pineapples, figs, cocoanuts, and peaches, it might have been supposed he would rest from his scientific labors. But Professor Jonkin was not that kind of a man.
He was continually striving to grow something new in the plant world. So it was no surprise to Bradley Adams, when calling on his friend the professor one afternoon, to find that scientist busy in his large conservatory. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ One that tries to eat you alive! But I've got to do something if I want to save you. Where's the ax?"
"No! No!" begged the professor, his voice becoming more and more muffled. "Use chloroform."
"Use what?"
"Chloroform! You'll find some in the closet."
Then Adams saw what the professor's idea was. The plant could be made insensible, and the imprisoned man released with no harm to the blossom.
He raced down the ladder, ran to a closet where he had seen the professor's stock of drugs and chemicals stowed away on the occasion of former visits, and grabbed a big bottle of chloroform. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ It was some months after that before he saw the professor again. The botanist was busy in his conservatory in the mean time, and the gardener he hired to do rough work noticed that his master spent much time in that part of the glass house where the pitcher plant was growing.
For Professor Jonkin had become so much interested in his latest acquisition that he seemed to think of nothing else. His plan for increasing strawberries to the size of peaches was abandoned for a time, as was his pet scheme of raising apples without any core. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ Listen. I reasoned that if a small blossom of the plant would thrive on a few insects, by giving it larger meals I might get a bigger plant. So I made my plans.
"First I cut off all but one blossom, so that the strength of the plant would nourish that alone. Then I made out a bill of fare. I began feeding it on chopped beef. The plant took to it like a puppy. It seemed to beg for more. From chopped meat I went to small pieces, cut up. I could fairly see the blossom increase in size. ”

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Howard Roger Garis, The Argosy/Volume 49/Issue 1 (1905)

“ Yet it looks mighty suspicious. And he's doing it on the sly, too, for there's been no meat cooked in the house, of that I'm sure."
And the gardener, sorely puzzled over the mystery, went off, shaking his head more solemnly than before. ”

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