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| THE PSYCHIC HORTICULTURALIST During the 1920s Harry Hahn astonished vaudeville audiences by making living plants sprout miraculously from ordinary household furniture. Even those invited to study his act at close range could not see how he did it. |
| Shy and uncharismatic, Hahn was a reluctant performer who had developed his extraordinary talent through a lifelong interest in botany. He once confessed that during his isolated childhood his best friend has been a leylandii conifer. |
| Hahn�s performance demanded such a level of concentration that he sometimes fainted form the effort. He once collapsed on-stage while making a philodendron grow out of a bedside table. |
| When investigated by scientists at the Institute for Psychical Research in 1928, Hahn duplicated his act under test conditions, producing plant life from three out if five items of furniture. Upon close examination the scientist confirmed that the emerging plant had indeed taken root. |
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