THE MYSTERIES OF SEED.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 42, 25 November 1913, Page 1

THE MYSTERIES OF SEED.

In a recent issue of 'The Daily Mast* a letter appeared on tin. l length oi timo seeds will remain in the ground if nut exposed to the ail' (writes u eorrespondcnt). 1 remember one particular caso some years ago. We harvested a tity of turnip seed; the ground was afterwards trenched and oth<*r cr<i|is were grown on the same ground for lt» years. The ground was again trenched, and in a few days a good crop of the. same turnip appeared. The variety, I remember, was Norfolk Bell, and there is no doubt the seed was ill the ground for that time.

While investigating a prehistoric suo in Cornwall in tlie year ls)01 (writes another correspondent) 1 found a store of grass seed—since identified as Triticum perenne—whieh was successfully sown and cultivated. The eireumstani-es left no doubt that this sml had lain dor« mailt for a period of about I'HXX) years.