The Licorice Plant

Tiio (tcortóe plant is a small shrub. -wit 1. light foliage, growlng ftbont three fcct h,ïgh where lt roots reach tli.o water. Xo lands are leasod tor lt parpose, and no objeetion is made to its being culUvated. lt grows on ïed eartih. SOU, and also on lijiht, alinosi eaody, vUcre. the wooil is best, provkled it has plaiity of water, and the ground is not more thiin 50 yards from tlhe actual river or Btream. Thiese wood, aftcr once boins' dng lip, grows botter aiterwanls. The H.ime of eolleotintr is geaierally during thO winter, luit it i possible all t lic ycur round. The roo! v 1 1 " 1 1 diiii i.s iull of water, and mus t be aliowed to dry. Vhich takes tin? best peurt of a year. It bB thien sawert or eut into emaU 'picces from six inclK'S to a foot long. Thiegood and sound pieci.s are kept, and tho rotten ones are used for iire(WOOd. lt is tlien taken in native boats to Bussorah, whente it is sliippel in pressed bales to London, and again from tiiiero to America, Tvhere 5fc is used ïarfii ly in t'luï manufacture of tobáceo.