The Plant-Lore & Garden-Craft of Shakespeare
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Lyte said: "Rha, as it is thought, hath great broadleaves;" and then he says: "We have found here in the gardens ofcertaine diligent herboristes that strange plant which is thought bysome to be Rha or Rhabarbum;" but from the figure it is very certainthat the plant was not a Rheum. After the time of Parkinson, it waslargely grown for the sake of producing the drug, and it is still grownin England to some extent for the same purpose, chiefly in theneighbourhood of Banbury; though it is doubtful ...whether any of thespecies now grown in England are the true species that has long producedTurkey Rhubarb. The plant is now grown most extensively as a springvegetable, though I cannot find when it first began to be so used. Parkinson evidently tried it and thought well of it. "The leaves have afine acid taste; a syrup, therefore, made with the juice and sugarcannot but be very effectual in dejected appetites. " Yet even in 1807Professor Martyn, the editor of "Millar's Dictionary, " in a long articleon the Rhubarb, makes no mention of its culinary qualities, but in 1822Phillips speaks of it as largely cultivated for spring tarts, and forcedfor the London markets, "medical men recommending it as one of the mostcooling and wholesome tarts sent to table.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Lyte said: "Rha, as it is thought, hath great broadleaves;" and then he says: "We have found here in the gardens ofcertaine diligent herboristes that strange plant which is thought bysome to be Rha or Rhabarbum;" but from the figure it is very certainthat the plant was not a Rheum. After the time of Parkinson, it waslargely grown for the sake of producing the drug, and it is still grownin England to some extent for the same purpose, chiefly in theneighbourhood of Banbury; though it is doubtful ...whether any of thespecies now grown in England are the true species that has long producedTurkey Rhubarb. The plant is now grown most extensively as a springvegetable, though I cannot find when it first began to be so used. Parkinson evidently tried it and thought well of it. "The leaves have afine acid taste; a syrup, therefore, made with the juice and sugarcannot but be very effectual in dejected appetites. " Yet even in 1807Professor Martyn, the editor of "Millar's Dictionary, " in a long articleon the Rhubarb, makes no mention of its culinary qualities, but in 1822Phillips speaks of it as largely cultivated for spring tarts, and forcedfor the London markets, "medical men recommending it as one of the mostcooling and wholesome tarts sent to table.
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