ASHSS. 



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QUANTITY or ASHES CONTAINED IN THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF 

 VEGETABLES, ACCORDING TO M. DE SAUSSURE.* 



All these estimates of ashes refer to plants dried during sevei tl 

 weeks in a stove heated to 25° cent. {IT Fahr.) By such drying, 

 however, vegetable substances are very far from losing the whole 



Saussure, Recherches chimiquos, p. 233, 

 5* 



