. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. shing flavour ; and when boiled are servedas vegetables. 98G. The Seirpus tuhcrhsits, or water chestnut {fig. 130.),is a stoloniferous rush, almost without leaves, and thetubers are produced on the stolones. It grows in tanks,which are manured for its reception about the end of tank being drained of its water, small pits are dug in itsbottom
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. shing flavour ; and when boiled are servedas vegetables. 98G. The Seirpus tuhcrhsits, or water chestnut {fig. 130.),is a stoloniferous rush, almost without leaves, and thetubers are produced on the stolones. It grows in tanks,which are manured for its reception about the end of tank being drained of its water, small pits are dug in itsbottom; they are filled with human manure, and exposedto the sun for a fortnight; their contents are next intimatelyblended with the slim; bottom of the tank, and slips of theplant inserted. The water is now returned to the tank, andtle first crop of tubers comes to perfection in six months.(Hox. Coromandel.) 987. The millet Woeus) is grown on the banks of rivers,and attains the height of sixteen feet It is sown in rows,and after it conns up Panicum is sown between, whichcomes to perfection after the other is cut down. 9S8. Among the many esculent vegetables cul-tivated in China, the petsai, a species of white cabbage, is in most general uie. The. Book I. AGRICULTURE IN ASIA. 159 quantity consumed of it over the whole empire is, according to all authors, immense;and, Dr. Abel thinks, it may be considered to the Chinese what the potato is to theIrish. It is cultivated with great care, and requires abundant manuring, like itscongeners of the i?rassica tribe. Boiled, it has the flavour of asparagus; and raw, iteats like lettuce and is not inferior. It often weighs from fifteen to twenty pounds,and reaches the height of two or tree feet. It is preserved fresh during winter byburying in the earth ; and it is pickled with salt and vinegar. 989. Almost every vegetable of use, as food, in the arts, or as medicine, known to therest of the world, is cultivated in China, with, perhaps, a very
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