AND ITS DIFFERENT KINDS. 89 



neral, be instantaneously renewed. A sudden fresh 

 supply of food would therefore cause an accumulation 

 of vital energy in the root, which would consequently 

 assume a degree of vigour and a luxuriant mode of 

 growth not natural to it, and become bulbous. Thus 

 it ac(|uires a resource against such checks in future, 

 and the herb is preserved alive, though in a very far 

 less luxuriant state than when regularly and uniformly 

 supplied with its requisite nourishment. These are not 

 solitary instances. It is well w^orthy the attention of an 

 intelligent cultivator to seek them out, and turn them 

 to his advantage. 



