From: bill@ietc.ca (spbill)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: An Early Bulletin on Tomato Plants
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 96 06:44:52 GMT
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This will be good for a laugh.

I am reading an official scieno emission (original color flash 
green on gold) called the HCO HORTICULTURAL BULLETIN OF 6 MAY 1960 
sub-titled FIFTH DYNAMIC RESEARCH which tells of  "Dr. Hubbard's" 
horticultural experiments (seems they called him Doctor Hubbard 
back then).

The following warning appears: Please do not issue any details to 
the Press in your own area...  why they didn't want word of this to 
leak to the Press will become clear soon enough.

The bulletin starts out by explaining that plants are the fifth 
dynamic in Scientology, which LRH has been researching.  It 
continues with,  "Some of our recent developments in technology 
were discovered in plants by Dr. Hubbard.  In studying life and 
life sources he made a fundamental discovery last fall that plants 
are the same order of life form as animals or humans.  This opened 
the door widely to more understanding of life."

They claim this breakthrough will probably revolutionize the art of 
gardening.  Speaking of mutating seeds by means of X-rays and other 
rays, the bulletin states his long line of research makes Dr. 
Hubbard a leading authority on [get this] "atomic gardening".

One of Dr. Hubbard's amazing discoveries was that if you bombard 
seeds with X-rays their characteristics will be changed.  [No 
kidding!]  By using this method he was able to grow tomato plants 
at Saint Hill Manor which produced five times as much fruit as an 
"ordinary" tomato.  [They don't say anything about all the auditing 
the plants received.]

The writer (Derek H. Shuff, Publicity Manager) - then goes on to 
suggest Ron's research could solve a problem confronting many 
governments: how to feed the ever-increasing populations in the 
world.  "His address in London made a great impact on those 
present". - [No doubt!]

These "horticultural bulletins" ceased appearing shortly  after the 
above report.

spbill