AND ITS DIFFERENT KINDS. 8.9 



neral, be instantaneously renewed. A sudden fresh 

 supply of food would therefore cause an accumulation 

 ot 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 acquires 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 worthy the attention of an 

 intelligent cultivator to seek them out, and turn them 

 to his advantage. 



