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mix with coffee. One fault is, lliatby tiying to get a large crop, 

 we injure the flavor." 



This suggestion is new to us, but chicory deserves a trial w© 

 give the following description of i(, which may be acceptable to 

 some readers. 



From Lmdlcy'8 Vegetable Kingdom. 



Asteraccffi Composits — Star llower — one of the most natural 

 and extended faraillcs of the vegetable kingdom. , Tliey are her- 

 liaceous plants (that is as a plain definition the)* lose tlieir an- 

 nual stem but the roots survive.) Centaury, Dandelion or Dens 

 Leonis, Artemisia, Taragon, Chamomile &c., kc. Chicorv has a 

 delicate bitter. The bitter of Artemisia has been employed in 

 medicine from the most remote antiquity. It is called Chichori- 

 umintybus. Is a perennial,- in general figure is like the dandeli- 

 on. Its flowers are blue — its root shaped like a carrot. The 

 €dges of the leaves, (like the dandelion) are deeply indented. 

 The whole plant is bitter and aromatic — when blanched well — 

 is relished as a salad. For this purpose they were taken up in 

 the end of Autumn, and put into light mould or sand m a dark 

 cellar — the leaves being first cut off within half an inch of the 

 crown. • 



Fresh slender leaves soon grow from the roots and being de- 

 prived of light are much more tender and delicate and the bitter- 

 ness is lessened. From the long slender matted condition of the 

 leaves, the French call it Barbc de Cupucin or Monk's Beard. 

 The luxuriant growth of the leaves and speedy reproduction after 

 being cut off, suggested the extensive culture of it for cattle and 

 sheep. Creete de Panuel who cultivated it in a rich soil, near 

 Paris, has produced extraordinary crops. The first year he cut 

 it off only twice, but afterwards four and even five times in the year. 

 And it yielded more green food than any other plant cultivated 

 Cot that purpose. Arthur Young was so struck with it, that he 

 recommended it strongly to the British farmers. ' The experiment 

 on it at the national farm of Rambuillet comparing it with Lu- 

 cerne — the Chicory was deemed inferior to the Lucerne, giving a 

 disagreea'jle taste to the milk and butter. Good for sheop, mixed 

 with their food, preserver from the rot. 



