. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. CHICORY ROOT CHICORY ROOT 231 Bulletin No. 32, pp. 14, 15; P. MacOwan, The Castor-Oil Plant, and Its Growth to Produce Machine Oil (1897), Agricultural Miscellanea, Cape of Good Hope, 13, pp. 483-487; G. E. Morrow and J. H. Bone, Castor Beans (1898), Oklahoma Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 33, pp. 13, 14; W. R. Shaw, The Improvement of the Castor Plant (1902), Oklahoma Station, Bulletin No. 54, pp. 1 -10 ; J. G. Smith, Castor Bean, Hawaii Experiment Station, Press Bulletin No. 2, pp. 1, 2; A. Zimmermann, Die Ricinus-Kul- tur,
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. CHICORY ROOT CHICORY ROOT 231 Bulletin No. 32, pp. 14, 15; P. MacOwan, The Castor-Oil Plant, and Its Growth to Produce Machine Oil (1897), Agricultural Miscellanea, Cape of Good Hope, 13, pp. 483-487; G. E. Morrow and J. H. Bone, Castor Beans (1898), Oklahoma Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 33, pp. 13, 14; W. R. Shaw, The Improvement of the Castor Plant (1902), Oklahoma Station, Bulletin No. 54, pp. 1 -10 ; J. G. Smith, Castor Bean, Hawaii Experiment Station, Press Bulletin No. 2, pp. 1, 2; A. Zimmermann, Die Ricinus-Kul- tur, Der Pflanzer (1905), 1, pp. 76-88. CHICORY ROOT. Cichorium Intybus, Linn. Com- posita:. Figs. 331, 332. By T. Lytfleton Lyon. The cultivated chicory or succory has an enlarged taproot resembling, in some varieties, the root of the parsnip, and in others, that of the forage beet, but it does not attain the size of the latter. The taproots range from eight inches to two feet or more in length and one to three inches. Fig. 331. Flowers and leaves of the chicory plant. in diameter. The plant is perennial. The seed- stalks bear clusters of brilliant blue or occasion- ally pink or white flowers (closing about noon), and are nearly destitute of leaves except near the base. The florets are all perfect, and all ligulate or rayed; pappus a short chaffy corona. The leaves and roots have a milk-white juice. When escaped from cultivation, chicory becomes a pestif- erous weed. Culture. Chicory may be raised on almost any good land north of the fortieth parallel of latitude. Local- ities and soils that have demonstrated their suit- ability to the production of sugar-beets are also well adapted to the growth of chicory. Chicory grows best on a well-drained loam soil, and it is important that it be free from large stones and from hard-pan, because of their inter- ference with the development of the long, straight root that chicory should possess. The plant is strongly drought-resistant. The me
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