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KIDNEY VETCH. This plant is not in cultivation, but it has been noticed that where it grows naturally the cows produce better milk and in greater quantity. It grows best in calcareous soils: the seeds are large, and easily collected. This plant well deserves attention. CICHORIUM Intybus.
Another plant of this kind is the endive, which is said to open its petals at eight o'clock in the morning, and to close them at four in the afternoon. Thus we are told how: "On upland slopes the shepherds mark The hour when, to the dial true, Cichorium to the towering lark, Lifts her soft eye, serenely blue."
DILL. Anethum graveolens. This is similar to fennel, and used in pickling. It is esteemed useful as a medicinal herb also; which see. ENDIVE. Cichorium Endivia. Of this we have three varieties in cultivation. The Green Curled. The White Curled. The Batavian, or Broad-leaved. These are sown usually in June and July, and planted out for use in the autumn and winter.
It would seem that the goose that lays the golden egg has emigrated to Muscovy. It is the Cichorium endivia of Linnaeus. Cf. Cf. Horace's verse "pinguibus et ficis pastum iecur anseris albi."
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