“4. DESHNISITIONS

if they did, it might be cultivated on

many occafions by the farmer, with greater profit than almoft any other crop.

I do not know if any ufe has hitherto been made of the roots of the Lucerne.— Thefe, where the crop has been luxuriant, are extremely large, and atford a faccha- rine juice, that’ would probably be very nourifhing to fome forts of animals. The roots are indeed tough and itringy in their natural ftate;—but if mafhed by a ftone rolling about on its edge like a tan-mill, er by any other contrivance, they would become tender enough for ufe.

The fame might be faid of Sam-foin (Saint-foin vulgo) roots. But of thefe] {peak lets pofitively, not being fo well ac- quainted with the nature of them.

But no plant that lam a¢quaurted with, promifes to be more valuable in this way, than the garden everlafting Pea; the roots of which grow in time to a very large fize, and are full of a rich faccharine Juice, little inferior to the garden liquorice.

How thefe roots could be moft eafily

taken out of the ground, might be en-

quired