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prefent chief Phyfician of Strasburgh , all which oc- 
curr’d in his own Practice \ as the foregoing are re- 
corded in the Regifter of that Univerfity. Thefe like- 
wife are very remarkable : But as they are not altoge- 
ther fo uncommon, a particular Account need not be 
given of them. 
VIII. An Account of the Culture and Management 
of Saffron in England, by James Douglafs> 
M. D. Med. Regin. Extr. Cr S. R. S. 
A S Saffron grows at prefent moft plentifully in Cam- 
bridge Jbire, and has grown formerly in feveral 
other Counties of England , the Method of Culture 
does not, I believe, vary much in any of them, and 
therefore I have judged it fufficient to fet down here 
the Obfervations which I employed proper Perfons, in 
different Seafons, to make in the Years 1723, 24, 25-, 
and 28, up and down all that large Trad of Ground 
that lies between Saffron- Walden and Cambridge , in 
a Circle of about ten Miles Diameter. In that Coun- 
try Saffron has been longed cultivated, and therefore 
it may reafonably be expeded that the Inhabitants there- 
of are more throughly acquainted with it than they are 
any where elfe. 
I fhall begin with the Choice and Preparation of the 
Ground. The greateft Part of the Trad already men- 
tion’d is an open level Country with few Inclofures j 
and the Cuftom there is, as in moft other Places, to crop 
two Years, and let the Land lie fallow the third. Saf- 
fron 
