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ON THE ENNOBLING OF ROOTS. 



This matter of flavour is a subject of interest, as most lovers 

 of the Parsnip as a garden esculent had got to complain of this 

 root becoming more and more tasteless. That this was so our 

 own experience most fully confirms. We have now, however, 

 mended this root very materially in this respect. 



Our experiments were only carried on with examples of the 



