Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — Seed Vitality. [ARTICLE]

Seed Vitality.

The limit of life in the embryo of seeds has long been a subject of experiment and discussion. In a late lecture, Prof. Bentley, an English botanist, stated that it is perfectly true that oats and other cereals have been raised from seed found in a mummy’s coflin, but that it appears to be equally certain that the grains were placed in the ancient coffin by some means only a short time before the exhumation of the body. Not many seeds germinate under ordinary circumstances after the third year, and very few indeed after the fourth. Peas and beans are very tenacious of life. The lotus has been known to grow after a hundred years, but there is scarcely another instance of such survival of vitality.

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