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PRODUCTION OF 



Sect. XVII. 



-1-5 



it Is 



with defign to produce other bulbs, and not to produce feed 

 probableAhat pinching ofFthe flowers naight enlarge the new bulbs 

 as the pinching ofFthe flowers of potat 



a 



5 



and that by fuch 

 kind of bulbs of feme of this genus might be procured 

 Another bulbous root, which might be well worthy cult! 



moid ground, is the orchis- morio ; which is fold under the name 

 of falep, after it has been prepared by firft fcalding it in hot water to 

 detraa the (kin, and afterwards by drying it in an oven ; and which 



then affords a nouriihing mucilage, which will long keep uninjured 



And 

 five 



c 



cheaper, might probably be brought into more 



fe as a culinary vegetable 



mentioned in Se£l. XVI. 3. 4 



/ 



The orchis morio produces one large new 



Uy, and proba 



Uy fome fmaller offsets, as otherwife I do not perceive, how it could 



creafe in our meadows 



does not ripen its feed 



coun- 



try 



If the new root be taken away from the old one early in the year 

 s affirmed, that the feeds will ripen in Sweden ; which are other 



i 



wife in that country 



th 



always unprolific 



penment 

 Another 



might therefore be very advantageous to the cultivator, 

 method of inducing orchis to bear prolific feeds may be by confi 



o 



the roots in garden pots, which might be immerfed 



moift fo 



and would probably bear ripe feed 



as 



the 



ly of the valley, con- 



faid to do by crowding its roots fo much as to prevent the 

 produaionofmoreofthem,Amenet.Academ.Vol.VI.p. 120. A third 

 method of procuring feed from orchis might be by cultivating a few 

 of them in a hot-houfe for that purpofe. 



The' root of the fnow-drop 



& 



f dug up 



d 



prepared in the fame manner, might poffibly fupply a nutritious mu 

 cilage fimilar to that of the orchis ; as I once boiled a few of them 

 and^found on taftlng them, that they had no difagreeable fl 

 prohfic feeds could be procured from 



If 



this plant, it might be worth 



for the fame purpofes as the orch 



and tjhe roots of th 



hyacinth 



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