An ovrr-increasine sale proves the popularity of WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS. I — One of Ihe mrsl remarkable natural l fetishes in the world is tile Chinese koil-1 (•In, called In- some people "the vegetable-! lamb. ' It is regarded by the natives of China as soin.-tliiin.- su]>eniatural; thev believe it to he part vegetable and' part animal. The plant .certainly bears a resemblance to an animal, although it might he taken for a pig as readily as a lamb. Kou-chi is composed principally of tile plant known as rhizome. au<l springs from seed. I After attaining its full height, roots and j tendrils spring from the fibre, and grow downwards until they enter the earth! It.! is this peculiar formal ion which has caused! it to be regarded with so much awe. Tho : Chinese claim that, after it has reached its full size, it ceases to be vegetable, and turns; animal, feeding upon the tender shoots of plants which srow near it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14715, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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159Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Otago Daily Times, Issue 14715, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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