Retells ten traditional folk tales about the animals and peasants of the Russian countryside.

... Valerian , is of a pale brown tending to yellow ; and is compofed of thicker and more naked fibres . The root of the Heath Valerian is firm and tough ; the root of the water kind is tender and more eafily broken . The Heath Valerian ...

... Valerian Root is fometimes altered in colour , though not greatly , from the foulness left about it at the time of gather- ing ; or from the ill management in drying . In this cafe , as it is the colour that first ftrikes the eye , if ...