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DRAINING 



Sect. XI. 2. 5. 



a general a£^, fo meritorloufly contended for by fir John Sinclair, 

 then Prefident of the Agricultural Society. 



5. Where finally the draining of marfhy grounds can not be efFea:- 



d at a refponfible expen 



fom 



e 



4 



may perhaps 



:ultivated 



a fluitans, 



hers the orchis for the 



1 



with profit to the cultivator ; as in fonne fituations the fefl 



floating fefcue, callitriche, flar-grafs ; or in o 



f urpofe of making faloop by drying the peeled roots in 



This might be better worth notice, if the feed could be ripened ii 



this climate for its eafier propagation, which probably may be accom 



an oven. 



.pH(hed 



th 



away the new 



ffirmed in th 



Amoenitates Academicse ; or by planting them in a garden-pot fo 



fi 



th 



roots in refpeit to fp 



which is 



d 



the fa 



work to ripen the feeds of convallaria, lily of the valley ; and laflly 

 by cultivating a few on a hot-bed or in a green-houl€. 



In other fituations the menyanthes, bog-bean, would flourish abun- 

 dantly, and might become a fubftitute for hops in the brewery, and 

 be equally wholefome and palatable. 



It is 



deed much to be 



mented, that we have no grain fimilar to rice, that will grow in wa- 

 tery grounds in this cold climate, nor any cfculent roots or foliage 

 except the water-crefs. There is reafon to believe neverthelefs, that 

 the roots of nymphaea, water-lily, or of butomus, flowering-rufh, 

 may be efculent by fimple boiling ; or that a wholefome {larch might 

 be obtained from them ; or laftly, that they might be fermentable 



Th 



ardent fpirit, like the roots of potatoes, or into vinegar. 



nymph 



mb 



is 



h 



Itivated in Ch 



in th 



fwampy grounds, and 



The feed is like an acorn, and 



of a tafle more delicate than that of almond 

 ferved with ice in fummer at their tables ; 



The roots' are fliced and 



d 



preferved in fait 



d vinegar for the winter. Embafly to China by fir G. St 



Vol. III. p. 214, 8vo. ed 



d 



a root of th 



The nymph^a alba of our country p 



or four inches in diameter 



2 



d though the feed is very fm 



See Sedl. XVII 



and perhaps does not per- 



feaiy 



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