The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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Credit: The great importance and proper method of cultivating and curing rhubarb in Britain, for medicinal uses : with an appendix / By Sir William Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *6 ) Plants, and afterwards tranfplanted then* in a thriving condition, according to the Rules and Orders of the Society, with the proper certificates. As foon as I had feed enough for the purpofc of making experiments, I fowed it in a hot-bed, and when it had fhot up with three or four feed-leaves, I planted it out in an eaft and fouth-eafi: expofure, where ground unmanured, or not too rich, is leaft apt to breed the fly ; to which indeed this Plant is more fubjedt than i even the Turnip. It mud not be con¬ cealed, that from the fame caufe, or from the untowardnefs of the feafon, fcarcely more than three or four in a dozen have, for the moft part, fucceeded. On the whole, it has anfwered be ft, when fown in the fituation now mentioned, during the laft half of the month of March, or in