| Summary: | Ancient Seeds Sprout Plants: Strange Specimens Of Vegetable Life Result From Find In Well. ANCIENT SEEDS SPROUT PLANTS Strange Specimens of Vegetable Life Result From Find in Well. ST. JOHN, Wash., Jan. 14.—A great deal of interest and conjecture is being manifested here over the discovery of a lot of seed nine feet under ground by Wayne Bailey, who was digging an open well on his father's stock ranch at the foot of Rock lake, eight miles northwest of here. The young man had dug through the top soil, a two-foot stratum of alkali, a two-foot stratum of soft soil, then a four-foot stratum of hardpan or sandstone, when he entered a second stratum of soft soil, from which he took a handful of unusual looking seed, somewhat resembling tomato seed. His curiosity was aroused and he planted the seed,, only three of which came up. He took the plants to his father, Charles Bailey Sr., Ewan. Mr. Bailey gave one of the plants to Dr. Douglas Mclntyre, St, John, who is carefully caring for it, while Mr. Bailey nurtures one. The third plant died. The problem is whether to give the plants arctic, semi-tropic, temperate or tropic environment. The plants have an unusual appearance, although they still have only two leaves each at three weeks old. The seed must have been underground thousands of years. Similar instances have been reported in Egypt.
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