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weeks, and thorcafter cut into marketable pieces 



before it be put into the drying. N. B. The 



cuticle ihould be rubbed off as foon as poflible. 



4. The fucculent root is more purgative than 

 the dried, therefore the more recent the better. 



•5, A foil that is fit for carrots will fuit Rhubarb. 

 It is believed that the roots raifed in a dry foil are 

 preferable to thofc raifed in a moift one. 



6. The feafon for taking up Rhubarb is from the 

 end of July to the firft of January; it lliould be 

 taken up after the weather has been fome time dry. 



7. I know nothing to prevent its being tranf- 

 planted. 



I have the honour to be, 



your moft obedient fervant, 



JOHN HOPE. 



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