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planted between the rows, and potatoes, and different varieties of cabbage, 
are mostly grown. The ground being earthed up around the liquorice 
plants, the furrows thus made afford much protection to the vegetable 
crops, and as the ground is always richly ma De before planting 
liquorice, favourable conditions are thus ensured for the production of 
early and very superior vegetables, indeed it is said iet the vegetable 
grow to such a height, and spread their foliage so widely, that other 
crops will not grow beneath them. On a visit to Pontefract, namely, 
in the early part of September, the writer saw some of these Liquorice 
gardens where the plants had attained the age of five years and a height 
of about four san each plant sending up numerous straight stout stems 
from the rootstock or crown, each stem bearing large vem alternate 
is used as a medicine, and the buds and runners are carefully pre- 
served ip sand for planting for it is from these alone that new plants 
seed. Th i 
useless. The planting of buds and runners for a new crop is done in 
the early part of April." 
n Dentley and Trimen's Medicinal Plants, Vol. 1I., under Plate 74, 
it is phe that “ both Spanish and Russian Liquorice roots are usually 
imported in bales or bundles, or, rarely, in the ease of that vens of 
* the Spanish variety which is derived from Alicante, loose, or in bags. 
* The Spanish Liquorice root is in straight unpeeled pese several fect 
“ in length, and varing in thickness from a quarter o inc about 
at from 2 Beanie | is frequently siae and dity in 
appearance, but that from Tortosa is usually clean and brighter 
~ looking. The Russian Liquorice root, which is imported from 
os Hamburg, i is either peeled or unpeeled. It is in pieces varying from 
“ 12 to 18 inches in length, and from a quarter of an inch to an inch 
“ or more in diameter. Co mbined with the usual sweetness of 
* liquorice root, this variety has a feebly bitter taste." 
The ollowing correspondence and extracts from official reports give 
Liquorice root in the East. A portion has already appeared in the Kew 
Bulletin for August of last year (pp. 223-1), but is reproduced here for 
the sake of completeness. 
LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE to Royan GARDENS, Kew. 
Botolph House, Eastcheap, London, E.C., 
1890. 
Dear 5 27t ea 
Yo n vill perhaps, recollect my letter of the 8th January, mpi 
certain inquiries in regard to Liquorice root, to which you were geod 
enough to respond on the 13th alia. stating that you did not possess 
the details sought. Having troubled you in the matter, I have now 
