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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    neral Cultivation and Cure in our own country, io as either to fupply the market fufficiently without foreign feed, or greatly to reduce the high prices of that which is imported. With this view, he for a number of years paft made all the enqui¬ ries he could into the fubjedt. Their refult led him to attempt repeated experiments in his own garden. Thefe have at la ft fueceeded to his with. The Society for the Encou¬ ragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, have been pleafed to vote him, unanimoufly, a Gold Medal, as their premium, for rear¬ ing Three Hundred Plants of the True