[ i88 ] 



Article XLVIII. 

 On the Cultivation of Rhubarb, 



[By a Gentleman near Norwich.] 



Gentlemen, 



T AM greatly obliged to you for the favour of 

 **" your letter, inclofing fome feeds of the Rheurn 

 Palmatum, together with the diredions fent by 

 your ingenious correfpondent at Mineheadi* in 

 return for which \ have tranfcribed and . fent you 

 thofe which I fometinie fince received froni a gen- 

 tleman who has refided many years in Ruffia, and 

 who aflured me he received them from the late Dr. 

 MouNSEY, who was archiater to the Emprefs, 

 ^nd who had conftantly followed the method here 

 direded in that country. The Dodtor*s words ar? 

 thefe : 



* The proper time for planting the feeds of the 



* Chinefe or the Turkey Rhubarb, is in April or 



* May: they may be planted in flower-pots, three 



* or four feeds in a pot, and plunged in a hot-bed 



* until the feeds vegetate. When the plants are 

 ' about two months old, let them be tranfplanted 

 f into the place where they are to remain, which 



9 See preceding letter, 



. ffiioul4 



