POPPIES 2,000 YEARS OLD
The extraordinary resuscitating power of light received a very curious illustration a few years ago in the silver mines at Lauriam. ihc mines had heeu abandoned more than 2,000 years ago as unworkable, and consisted for the most part of “ slag ” produced by the workings of the miners. An enterprising Briton discovered that the mines contained plenty of silver, which could easily be removed by the superior modern appliances. He discovered, however, something far more valuable than the silver, namely, some poppies of a species which had disappeared for twenty centuries, the seeds of which bad lain dormant beneath the slag for 2,000 years. When the slag was removed to the furnace, the next visit to the mine found the entire space covered with a most gorgeous show of P°PP' es - After their twenty centuries’ rest they had bloomed as vigorously as ever, without the aid of a single drop of water or any restorative other than the rays of the sup
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Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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166POPPIES 2,000 YEARS OLD Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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