The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens.

  • Stephens, Thomas, -1780
Date:
[1755?]
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Credit: The method and plain process for making pot-ash : equal, if not superior to the best foreign pot-ash published, in consequence of the late encouragement granted by Parliament for that purpose / By Thomas Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 [ 21 ] APPENDIX I. O N B A R I L L A, * METHOD OF CULTIVATING THE SPANISH KALI AND OBTAINING THE BARILLA FROM IT. Barilla is a kind of Pot-Afh obtained by burning an Herb called the Spanish Kali •, and is applied to the lame Purpofes of making Soap, Glafs, etc. The Kali, though an annual Plant, will, when once fown, fpontaneoufly renew and propagate itfelf from its Seed. It is found naturally on fandy wafle Places on the Sea-Coaft *, but it may be eafily produced by Culture; and mull indeed be fo produced, where Quantities are wanted for great Manu¬ factures of the Barilla. The Seed may be eafily obtained from Spain j as it is commonly fold : and may be fpread on fandy Traffs of Land, that lye wafte on the Sea-Coafi; where it will maintain itfelf, provided the whole of the Plants be not gathered for the Barilla before the Seed falls. But it may, like wife, be fown on cultivated Lands with advan¬ tage, along with Corn, particularly with the Kinds early ripe ; as the Kali will only be rifinp- out of the Ground when the Corn