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The root, of which I have undertaken to 

 give an account, is not known in France, or 

 at lead very little. It has no proper name 

 in French, and I have not been able to find 

 a defcription of it in any botanical work. 

 In Germany, where the greater! advantages 

 have been derived from it, it is called Dick 

 Ruben, (the Great Turnip); DicklVurzel, (the 

 Great Root) and Mangel Wurzel, (the Root 

 of Scarcity). I have made ufe of the lafl: 

 denomination, the Root of Scarcity, becaufe it is 

 a literal tranflation of the name often given to 

 it by the Germans, and becaufe it is expreflive 

 of the properties of the plant which it de- 

 notes. It might, indeed, be called the Root 

 cf Abundance, which would be no great devia- 

 tion from the German name, and which 

 would be expreffive of one of the principal 

 properties of this plant j which is, conftantly 

 to thrive, and to produce a very great crop, 

 even when other kinds of roots and vege- 

 tables fail, and when there is a general fear- 

 city of forage. 



This root ought not to be put into the 

 clafs of turnips, nor into that of carrots ; and 



although 



