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and it is a fact that undigested seeds, capable of 

 germinating, are found in their droppings. 



Cattle and pigs, but especially the latter, are respon- 

 sible for the rampant way in which apple-trees are 

 now running wild and forming extensive groves in the 

 Pampas. The pips are so well protected as to be 

 indigestible even by a pig ; and the same may be said 

 of peach-stones, which have also been extensively 

 scattered in New Zealand and elsewhere, by simi'?- 

 means and with similar results. 



