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forced the peoples under his rule to seek for home-grown 

 substitutes for those substances which custom had ren- 

 dered indispensable to their daily requirements for food or 

 comfort. 



Chicory belongs to the order COMPOSITE, which, although 

 a very large order, and most extensively distributed over 

 all parts of the world, containing a vast number of plants 

 serviceable in different ways to the wants of man, furnishes 

 but two plants to the agriculture of this country, and 



COMMON CHICORY OR SUCCORY Cichorium 



neither of which enter into our regular cultivation. It 

 forms a distinct genus Cichorium of which two species 



