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* C^ght years iindifturbed,* although ftill more years 



* will add greatly to their pcrfedlion. The roots 



* are to be taken up in autumn after the ftems and 



* leaves are withered and decayed, but the planter 



* may take them up in every feafon of the year, 



* when he has a fufficient numbei", as it is uncertain 



* at which fcafon the roots will prove mod folid. 

 ^ Upon taking them up, fplit them into two or three 

 ' pieces, and hang them upon cords or rods in a 



* kitchen or room with a (love in it, that they may 



* dry with a gentle heat/ 



Thus far Dr. Mounsey, 



Some few gentlemen in Norfolk have, for their 

 amufement, cultivated Rhubarb j they have planted 

 the Rhaponticum, the Palmatum, and the Com- 

 pacbum, and managed their plants very much as 

 above- directed. A near relation of mine, who is 

 a phyfician, has ufed the Rhubarb of his own 

 growth fome time, and pronounces it as good as 

 any foreign Rhubarb. He had fome plants of the 



* We apprehend that this part of the Do<flor's dired^ion muft have 

 been occafioned by the difference in climate between England and 

 Ruflia. The latter is not fo favourable to vegetation as the former. 

 Perhaps four years here may bring this plant to as high a ftate of ma- 

 turity as eight iu Ruflia; and we are the more induced to think this is 

 th? cafe, from having fcen plants raifed in this country, the roots of 

 ■which when properly cured, at four years' growth, were equal in qua** 

 lity to Turkey Rh«barb« 



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