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PLANTS RESURRECTED AFTER THREE YEARS BURIAL. 



The belief shared by all observers, that the herbs which 

 did not reappear during the first season after the eruption had 

 been killed, was, of course, due to the presumption that a com- 

 paratively short period of covering would prove fatal at Kodiak 



Photograph by D. B. Church 



A PLOWED FIELD. PART OF WHICH WAS CULTIVATED JUST 



BEFORE THE ERUPTION. 



The line between cultivated and fallow ground remains perfectly distinct after 

 four years. Cultivation just before the eruption destroyed most of the weeds 

 and no new ones have been able to start. The uncultivated land has grown 

 a mass of fireweed. whose bloom is conspicuous for miles — illustrating the 

 importance of residual vegetation. 



as it would in the United States. The death of grass in a lawn, 

 where a board is allowed to lie for a few weeks, is familiar to all. 

 It was supposed that burial under a foot of volcanic ash would 

 have the same effect. I was, therefore, very much astonished 

 to find that the plants at Kodiak were able to recover from such 

 burial. Later observations, however, showed that the recovery 



