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taken with the hand. The root, he says, is used as a substitute for soap in 
washing woollen clothes. 
It has been recommended to engraft this species into the points of the shoots 
of the common horse-chesnut, of twenty or thirty years' growth, care being 
taken afterwards, once or twice every year, to rub off all the buds from the stock 
as soon as they appear, so that the entire force of the plant may be directed to 
the nourishment of the scions. 
