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AcE OF PL,STs.-Somo plants, such a.
tho minute iunguscs, termed mould, only
live a few hours, or at mos, few days
Moses for the most par, live only one sea.
son, as do the garden plants called ANNALS
which die OF OLD age as soon as they ripen
their seeds. Some again, as the ioIglovs
aud the hollcyhock, live for two years. oc.
casionaliy prolonged to lhroc, if their flow.
ering be prevented. Trees, again, planted
in suitable soil and situation, live lor
centuries. Thus the olive tree may live
three hundred years; the oak double that
number; the chesnu, is said 10 have lasted
for nino hundred and fifty years; tho drag.
on's blood tree OF Teneriilo may be
two thousand years old and the Adanson
mentions panians SIX thousand years old.
When the wood Of the interior ceases to
afford room, by the closeness Of ito texture,
for the passage olsap pulp, or ior the lor.
nation OF new vessels, II dies, and by all
its moisture passing oil into the younger
wood, tho 6bres shrink, and are ultimately
reduced 10 dust. Tho centre of the tree
thus becomes dead, while tho outer portion
continues TO live, and in this way trees
may exist for many years before they per.
ish,-nagasino of Botany