Note 44 — ON THE DISEASES OF Literary and Sedentary Persons.
Reading edition
Many plants fit for use, and perhaps most such, and many others, by means of an easy art, give out a great quantity of excellent sugar, not much inferior to that of sugar-canes. Eight ounces of the fresh juice of the skirret yield an ounce of the best sugar. Margraff Mem. de l’Acad. de Berlin.