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seeds whicli had lliiis been swallowed, and butied, had germina- 

 ted after the lapse of centuries. 



Mr. Meigs called the attention of menjbeis to the "well known 

 fact of th? growth of clover and ether plants in places whicli 

 lias been covered for ages with forest, and where .the clover had 

 never before been sceiT. The late observations in France and 

 elsewhere of the long keeping of seeds in tlie earth at considera- 

 ble depths. It is true that the committee of the British Associa- 

 tion find that seeds kept in our boxes and in dry places soon lose 

 their vitality; but the experimentj to be effectual, should take 

 the same position as the buried raspberry, white clover, and oth~ 

 »ers. It is well known that wood, and leaves, and nuts have been 

 &imd in the course of geological research, buried in mar^hesand 

 otherwise, perfectly sound. The buried timber of the peat bogs 

 of Ireland and elsewhere is found good for all the purposes of a 

 4;urface free, and yet must have been hurried at least 2,000 years^ 

 'The deep pits made by some of the ancient African and Arabian 

 ■people, to keep their wheat, preserved it sound for great lengths 

 of time — placed at a depth where the temperature never changed 

 three degrees in a century. 



CHICORY OR SUCCORY. 



In the Mark I.ane Express, of July 5, 1852. vrelind the follow-' 

 iingDotice of the value of this plant. 



"Cliicory will (urn out to be one of the most important.agri- 

 cultur'cii as well as horticultural roots tliat perhctps nature has ev- 

 er giveuTiS, Every part of it is of great value — top and bottom 

 'blanched foi* salads ; green for Ciittle, sheep and Jambs ; the roots 



ifor .cattle as -well as fur coffee. 



'ifaMecilali; •attention ought to be paid to it. Every seed mer- 

 <5hant posgesjes the seecTof it and it is exceedingly cheap. If 

 chicory was largely grown by the cattle and sheep farmers, much 

 less disease would prevail and more milk and butter would be 

 produced, and niore healthy meat, as it is so fine a bitter and pu- 

 rifier of the blood. Thi^ root is largely grown in Y'^orksliire to 



