248 CHAPTER 46. 
The Method of cultivating Madder, as 
it is pradifed by the Dutch in Zealand'' 
4°. 1758. Intended to excite the Englijh, 
by the cultivation of this important article 
of trade, to fuperfede the importation of it 
from the Dutch who have ^- received frorn 
hence, for many years paft, more than 
" 1 80,000 pounds a year for this root;" and 
which, if properly carried on, would em- 
^Vploy a great number of hands from the 
time harveft is over till the fpring, which 
is generally a dead time of the year.'' 
A Letter to Mr. Watson, relating to 
a Miftake of ProfelTor Gmelin, con- 
cerning the Spondylium vulgare hirfuiwnj' 
C.B. Tr^;^ Vol. xlviii. p. 153. 
Miller adduces feveral reafons to 
prove, that the common Cow-Parf?tep of 
Siberia^ which the inhabitants make an ar-- 
tide of food, is not the common Cow- 
Parfnep fHerackum Spondylium J of Cajpar 
Bauhine ; but the Spondylium maximurn 
of Breynius : and further remarks the 
miftakes that have arifen from confidering 
the common plants of one country as the 
{common plants of another. On which og- 
pafioa 
