An account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity / Translated from the French [by J.C. Lettsom].

  • Commerell, François de, -approximately 1799.
Date:
1787
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the culture and use of the mangel wurzel, or root of scarcity / Translated from the French [by J.C. Lettsom]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reap the roots, and may clofely cut off all the leaves. This operation may he per- formed the evening before, or even lome days before the harveft. In the evening all the roots fhould be collected together ; if they have been well aired, they may be put under cover in a cellar, or in any other dry place, where they are not in danger of being hurt by the froft ; if there is no reafon to be apprehenfive of rain, they may be left in the field in which they were gathered during the night, and removed the next day to the place in which they are to be depofited. If the weather will permit them to be left in the air two or three days, it will be advantageous to them. They fhould not be handled roughly, either in removing them, or in dilcharging them into the cellar, or other place where they are to be kept • for as they have a very thin rind, they are eafily bruifed, and then they do not keep fo well.