Archive image from page 266 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 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), Olvlahoma Experiment
Archive image from page 266 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 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), Olvlahoma Experiment 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 Litybus, Linn. Co7n- posita:. Figs. 331, 332. By T. Lyttleton 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 la I' â '» I 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 ston
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