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gooner in any animal by rich feeding and good treatment than otherwise, yet it takes

their attempts to fatten them with this article, supplying them towards the end of the business with some meal or coarsely ground corn.

Dr. Anderson, in his‘ Essays on Agriculture and Rural Affairs,’ mentions a circumstance about grasses that may deserve notice. In most of them, should the stalks be de- stroyed after they are fully formed, others do not rise that season; the plants running afterwards to leaves, and some species likewise spreading by the roots. This alteration in the mode of growth, however, is perhaps hardly to be as- cribed to the effect of cutting off the stems, but, probably, rather to the period of the season, when that is done, being too far advanced for their renewal. When performed timously with those species which send up their stems early, they usually shoot up again, especially if superior fertility in the soil encourage their vegetation, After the seed stalks ef even vivacious plants are destroyed, there is an interval before others appear. Foliage se2ms to be necessary for the production of seed-bearing stems; for the latter rise only

after the former has survived for some time. Plants live

_ not only by the functions of their roots, perhaps chiefly ab-

sorption, but likewise by those of their other parts in the atmosphere. Though the common leaves contribute to the due evolution of the young buds that become stems, yet, in

certain plants, it is not requisite that they precede them in I

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