Show poppies two years old the extraordinary resuscitating power of light received a very curious illustration a few keirs ago in the silver mines at laudlam Laur lam fam the mines had been abandoned more than 2000 years ago as unworkable and consisted for the most part of the slag produced by the workings of the miners an enterprising briton discovered that the slag contained plenty of silver which could easily be removed by modern appliances 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 poppies from the seed left under the slag when the mine was abandoned after their 20 centuries rest they had bloomed as vigorously as ever without the ald aid of a single drop of water or any restorative other than the rays of the sun popular science news |