ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS. INFORMATION. 
. No. 89.] MAY. [1894. 
CCCLXXVII.—LIQUORICE. 
(Glycyrrhiza glabra, L.) 
In consequence of the large quantities of Liquorice root now exported 
from Asia Minor and other Li iquorice-growing countries to Ameriea, 
also in making a fancy drink, a considerable amount of attention has 
been given to the introduction of the Seit in India, America, and other 
countries where it is at all likely to thri 
The Liquorice:plant (Glycyrrhiza | dva, L.) is a native of North 
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several generations, the ate hed wine soil which occurs here bini 
the country between Pontefract and Knottingley baing largely occupied 
by market gardens, in which Liquorice forms an extensive crop e 
following notes on the cultivation of the plant and harvestin ng. the root 
iquorice ” 
are taken from an article on the ** Culture and wire on of 
wae appeared in the Leisure Hour for April 189. 
“The plants are grown in rows, and they stand foii three to four 
years before arriving at perfection. The three years’ growth is thinner 
and scarcely so rich in juice as the four years’ plants. Occasionally, if 
root becomes thicker, coarser, and more woody. e long straight root 
goes down to a great depth, averaging perhaps about four feet, but 
sometimes even to six feet, and as the soil has to be dug down to this 
depth by hand to extract the root, the labour of eropping or harvesting 
is considerable. During the first two years that the land is occupied by 
liquorice, the plants themselves being small, allow of other crops being 
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