146 _ on the culture.of madder May 3. 
“rv. Lastly, there is no danger to be apprehended of the 
roots fermenting, which the ground root constantly does, 
if it is not immediately made use of. , 
‘ All these advantages together, may amount to a sa~ 
ying of five-ezghths in point of quantity.’ 
- As to the time that the root may be preserved with 
safety after it has been taken up, the following experiments, 
made by Mr d’Ambourney also, will prove satisfactory. 
. © I caused a hole, three feet deep, to be dug in my 
garden, in which, October 6. 1 threw thirty madder 
plants, and the hole being filled up, remained in this man- 
mer exposed to the air and rain. I caused it to be opened 
on the 30th of March after, when I found all the roots in 
good condition, 
‘ The hole was then filled up, and remained so till the 
30th of September, when even the vermicular roots, though 
broken and separated from the plants, appeared to me to 
be as firm and healthy as when they were first deposited 
there; but being curious to know whether they had not 
undergone some alteration not discoverable by the eye, I 
dyed with them, at the same time with some other roots 
I had taken up for the purpose, and I found no difference 
in the bath, nor in the solidity or brightnefs of the co~ 
jour. 
‘ The planter then may preserve, in cases of necefsity, 
his crop for a whole year, in a trench dug in his yard, or 
even in the edge of a field, observing only to lay an alter 
nate bed of roots, and a little earth. 
‘ In this manner he may wait for a proper opportunity 
of selling them, and the consumer can no longer play the’ 
tyrant, by giving him what price he pleases, because he is 
obliged to sell. , 
‘ The dyer, who is friend enough to himself to adopt: 
my method of dying with green roots, may, in like manner, 
