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

  • Fordyce, William, Sir, 1724-1792.
Date:
1792
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    ( >7 ) in April, or even as far as the end of May; or yet later, if the fpring has proved cold and dry. It may be alfo tranfplanted during the whole courfe of the fummer. Sets likewife from the more abundant Items will often fucceed very well, and even the Tap-root, in the deeped mould, and where the upper part is already fit to be cut into dices of two inches in depth and three in breadth, before the Plant has pufhed out its rapid Items. With regard to the time of taking up the Roots •, that may be done with fafety, when it fhews its firft growth, or as foon as it has feeded, or when the feed is ripened, or at any period in the laft quar- ter of the year, or in the firft of the enfuing. Though it may be taken up, dried, and ufed at the end of four years, it will not, how properly foever managed, pofTefs that D folidity