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Chicory . 
Thirdly. If the preceding tests do not give satisfaction, then 
take 100 grains of the stone : reduce it to a fine powder : grind up 
with it 250 grains of common pearl ash, boil them in a tin or earth- 
en vessel with half a pint of water to dryness. Wash what re- 
mains by three separate affusions of half a pint of boiling water : 
dry the sediment at the bottom. If the stone be gypsum, that sedi- 
ment will weigh 77 or 78 grains; it will have all the properties 
©f common limestone reduced to powder, it will effervesce with, 
and totally dissolve in a mixture of one part of spirit of salt to two 
parts water added by degrees till the whole be dissolved. T. G. 
Chicory. Succory. Chicorium Intubus. 
Extract of a letter from Judge Peters to the Editor. 
^ In the life time of General Washington, many years ago, he 
^ had frequent correspondence with the Scavans in agriculture, in 
Europe. It became so burthensome to him, that at his request 
“ I took it off his hands. I had much intercourse with several of 
(i them on the subject of the chicorium intubus. Arthur Young, 
a was enthusiastic for a time , in favour of this plant. He has hot 
and cold fits on most subjects. Both the General and myself 
u tried this plant as a grass, with no such wonderful effects as those 
** Mr. Young had pourtrayed. Yet we found to a certain point that 
u it was valuable. Having long given up my farm to tenants, I am 
6i only a sort of chamber-counsel in husbandry. I reserve 20 or 30 
u acres for amusement, and on this small scale continue to try every 
a thing I hear of, any wise likely to be useful. As a material for 
e( Coffee, I have never known the Succory , as we call it, or Chicory 
“ as it is called perhaps with more botanical correctness. The na- 
a tive succory I found in this part of the country was a mean plant. 
a If without much trouble you could procure for me seed of good 
a native or foreign chicory, I will begin some experiments on its 
u uses as a substitute for Coffee. Inform me of the method of 
u treating it for this purpose. I am, &c. Richard Peters * 
The Chicory, is a species of Endive ; wild Endive : the seeds 
of these plants are much alike. 
In the state of Pennsylvania, though but in a few places, chico- 
ry or succory as the German settlers call it, has been cultivated as 
a substitute for coffee with much success. The plant is sown 
in beds either drilled or broad cast ; and thinned out to about six 
or eight inches apart. In the beginning of winter they are taken 
