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fabftance or root; which rind and.skin, being pared away, the root appeareth of fo 
frefh and lively a colour, with frefh-coloured veins running through it, that the 
choiceft of that rhubarb. that is brought: us from beyond the feas cannot excel it: 
which root, if it-be dried carefully, and as it Ought, (which muft be in our country 
by the gentle heat of a fire, in regard the fun is not hot enough here to do it,) and 
every piece kept from touching one another, will hold its colour almoft as well as 
when it is frefh;.and hath been tere: af; aoe —T ns sap: nist se 
oftentimes ufed it... Lorh 
.Puace. It groweth in eibcatis and Adeline abou the benseining or middle of 
June, and the feed is ripe in July. (usrtt (24 
Time. The roots, that are to es a and ‘iil all the year following, are not te 
be taken up-before the ftalk and leaves be quite withered and gone, and that is not 
until the middle or end of Oftober ; and, if they be taken a little before the leaves: 
do fpring, or when they are {prung up, the roots will not have fo good a colour in 
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Joh “GARDEN PATIENCE, on MONKS RHUBARB, 
Bubonsetiesh THI Sisa dock; bearing the name of rhubarb for rides 
ing quality therein, and groweth up with large tall ftalks, fet with fomewhat broad 
and long fair green leaves, not dented. The tops of the ftalks, being divided into 
many {mall branches, bear reddifh or purplith flowers, and three-fquare feed, like 
untoother docks. The root is long, great, and yellow, like unto the wild docks, 
— bata little redder, and, if it be a Hittle dried, iPuages lefs Gitoloured ye veins § that the 
aivaeeis when i itis dry. 
JIG GREAT ROUND-LEAVED DOCK, on BASTARD. RHUBARB... my LY 
“Deseniprtow: “THIS hath divers large, round, thin, Yyellowith Sreen leaves, : 
fifing from the root, a little waved above the edges, every one ftanding ona thick ate | 
long brownifhi foot: {talk from among which rifeth up a pretty big ftalk, about two 
feethigh, with fome fuch-like leaves growing thereon, but fmailler , at the top where- 
Of ftand, in a lone fpike, many fmall brownifh flowers, which turn into hard three | 
Apdie Mantay ‘brown feed, like the ‘garden patience ‘before defcribed, This root oe 
Brows larger, “with | many branches of great fibres, yellow on thé outfide, and fome- pa ae 
what pale yellow within, with fome difcoloured veins, like the rhebarb firft deferibed , ae 
boe e much Jefs; ‘efpecially when it is dry. ~ a Pine . 
