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ed twice a-day, morning and evening— Grafs mufl not be 



allowed to grow If managed as above, it will be grown 



in fix months, when it muft be dug up with a large iron-bar, 

 to prevent the roots being broke, and bound into fmall 

 bundles that are to be dried and bound into larger bundles 

 uf two maunds weight, or 1 50 pound weight. 



After cutting or beating off the upper part, the roots 

 muft be well powdered, and mixed up with four times their 

 quantity of water in a pot, and boiled for fome time, both 

 for painting and dying red. For the painted Calengary or 

 Chintz, the painters ufe other fluffs together with chay root, 

 according to their convenience, as Brafil wood, to (hew them 

 where the red is to be put, but the Che root is the princi- 

 pal. — The ground that is planted with Chay root cannot be 

 ufed for the fame purpofe again for five years. 



N. B. Seeds of the Oldenlandia Umbellata were fent by 

 three different conveyances, which all arrived fafe in Britain. 

 — One parcel was given to the royal fociety for the< promo- 

 tion of arts in the Strand, London ; another parcel to the 

 fociety of agriculture, Bath ; and another to the philofo- 

 phic and literary fociety at Manchefter •, with a requeft to 

 the firir, that a fmall parcel of the feeds fhould be commur 

 nicated to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart, and another to the king'3 

 gardener at Kew ; — the rem.ainder to be diftribyted among 

 fuch perfons here, and in the Weft Indies, «$ were moft 

 likely to give this plant a fair trial. It was alfo requefted, 

 that the members of the other focieties would take the 

 trouble to fend thefe feeds, chiefly to their correfpondents 

 in the Wert Indies, fo as to give it a chance of a fair trial 



in different places At the fame time, as the root is of fo 



great value, it could admit of being imported direftly from 

 India, as an article of commerce j and fome of the roots 

 have been accordingly ordered home for a trial. 



It muft, however, be admitted, that the ufe of this drug 

 is ncf now fo much wanted here as formerly, feeing an in- 

 genious gentleman, now at Glafgow, has difcovered a me- 

 tliod of dying cotton of a permanent red, little inferior to 

 that from India. 



