MADDER OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. l^^ 



offer for your next number a few remarks on the publicatiou 

 in general, which has produced this con^raunicajtion ; in 

 which, whatever diffiering opinions ni^' subsist, I assuredly 

 niust admire the ingenuity, and respect the knowledge of 

 my honourable antagonists. 



G.P. 

 George Street, Hanover Square, 

 January 14, 1812. 



XIII. 



On the Culture and superior Colouring Qualities of Madder 

 raised.hy Mr, William Salisbury, of the Botanic Gar^ 

 dens at Shane Street and Brompton, from Seeds presented 

 to the Society of Arts, S^c. byi. SpencerSmith, L.L.D., 

 whoprocured them from Smyrna*. 



SIR, 



JL Herewith send you two samples of extract of madder. Madder ^eeds 



one of which, marked A, is produced from the root of the ^"^""^ ^™^"** 



. sowtu 



Smyrna kind, a plant which I have not heard of being before 



introduced into this kingdom, the seeds of which I received 

 from you, and which you informed me had been procured at 

 the request of the Society of Arts &c. from Smyrna, by 

 J. Spencer Smith, Esq. I sowed the seeds in my Botanic 

 Garden, at Cadogan place, in April 1808, in a soil rather 

 inclining to clay; and I have the satisfaction to find, from 

 this esperiment, that there is every appearance of its being 

 cultivated with considerable success; for, if I might venture 

 to state a calculation made of the crop from the small quan- 

 tity grown, the produce would be upwards of fifteen hun- Their produc<h^ 

 dred weight of the fresh root per acre. 



The above estimate is made on tlis supposition, that the The seeds 

 tceds were sown in drills at one foot distant from each other, j'''^,"'j ^^ 

 which appears to me to be the best mode for its cultivation, foot distance. 

 I am thus particular, as 1 conceive 1 shall be doing my 



* TrsMJs, of the Society of Art*, Vol. XX VH, p. io4. Samples ef 

 tbe s«ed received from Mr. J. S. Smitli are preserved in the Society's 

 Keposttory, also the coloux'cd liquors referred to by Mr. Salisbury. 



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