Description of a Plant Yielding Asa FoetidaIn a Letter from John Hope, MDFRSto Sir Joseph Banks, BartPRS. . jg. Plant yielding Afa foetida. 3:9 u thinks never was cultivated in any European garden, and€i which nobody has been fo fortunate as to raife from feed but66 himfeif, though the feeds fent to the Academy from the€6 mountains of Ghilan in Perfia had been diftributed among, feveral curious perfons. Both thefe roots were planted in the open ground, in theBotanic Garden at Edinburgh; one died ; the other after fometime did well, andlaft fummer flowered and produced feed. Ihad an accurate dr
Description of a Plant Yielding Asa FoetidaIn a Letter from John Hope, MDFRSto Sir Joseph Banks, BartPRS. . jg. Plant yielding Afa foetida. 3:9 u thinks never was cultivated in any European garden, and€i which nobody has been fo fortunate as to raife from feed but66 himfeif, though the feeds fent to the Academy from the€6 mountains of Ghilan in Perfia had been diftributed among, feveral curious perfons. Both thefe roots were planted in the open ground, in theBotanic Garden at Edinburgh; one died ; the other after fometime did well, andlaft fummer flowered and produced feed. Ihad an accurate drawing of the plant made by Mr. Fife, whichI now have the pleafure of laying before the Society. It ex-preffes very well the general habit of the plant, which was ofa pale fea-green colour, and grew to the height of threefeet. The ftem is deciduous, but the root is part of the plant, when wounded, poured out a richmilky juice, refembiing in fmell and tafte-Afa foetida ; and attimes a fmell refembiing garlick, fuch as a faint impregnationof Afa foetida yields, was perceivable at the difta
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