---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Van Buren, C. G.
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 2
published: 1906-12
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'C. G. Van Buren, "Do Plants Feel?," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 2 (December 1906): 113.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1002unse
start_page: 113
end_page: 113
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1906-12)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1002unse
  publication_year: 1906
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1906, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Do Plants Feel?

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plants, as well as animals, feel and move.— C. G. VanBuren, B.^\

Artificial Diamonds in America.

 Henry W. Fisher, of New York, has succeeded in making diamonds so much larger than any hitherto made, that there seems to be a possibility of making gems large enough to have commercial value. Fisher's method is essentially the same as that used by Henry Moissan, the French chemist, who first made artificial diamonds six- teen years ago by means of the electric furnace. This furnace is

 very simple. It consists of two bricks of quicklime placed one upon the other and grooved to receive two carbon electrodes. A cavity is made in the bricks between the carbon terminals to re-

 ceive the material to be melted. The high temperature of the arc,