88 RANUNCULUSES. 
The fpeedieft and fafeff method of 
taking up thefe fmall roots is to pare off 
the earth, three inches deep, with a 
trowel, or {hovel, having previously 
carefully picked off the dried leaves, and 
any other extraneous matter that may be 
found upon it. The earth and roots, 
thus collefted, are to be thrown into 
a fine brafs-wire fieve, that will not 
permit the finalleft roots to pafs through 
it; the fieve is then to be worked in a 
large veffel, or tub, nearly filled with 
water; the earthy part will, in confe- 
quence, be diffolved and wafhed away, 
and the roots will remain in the fieve, 
where, by a little management, they may 
be eafily feparated from the Hones, &c„ 
which are mixed with them. The upper 
rim of the fieve muff, at all times, be 
held above the furface of the water, 
otherwife fome of the final left roots will 
be 
