Volume 1

An account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity / Translated from the French of the Abbé de Commerell ... ; [edited, with prefaces by John Coakley Lettsom].

Commerell, François de, -approximately 1799.

Date:: 1787

Credit: An account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity / Translated from the French of the Abbé de Commerell ... ; [edited, with prefaces by John Coakley Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$of an agreeable tafte, much fuperior to the red beet* and at leaft equal to the turnip. The leaves which the roots, when kept in a cellar, produce during the winter, are very tender, and extremely delicate in fide diflies. § VIII. Crop of the Roots, A '' *\ The commencement of {harp frofts deter¬ mines the time for getting in the crop of roots : in 1785,1 began this on the 14th of November; in 1784, I had been obliged to do it on the 15th of O&ober. A fine day muft be chofen for gathering in this very valuable crop, though at the hazard of doing it many days before it is neceffary : it is important to the prefervation of this root, that it fihould be houfed perfedtly dry. The day being fixed, thefe roots fhould be gathered in the morn¬ ing, and left upon the place whereon they grew, that they may be dried by the air and by the fun. Children may follow thofe who reap$