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1786. 

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RAPE SEED. 



Is this volume, for the first time in our history, the entries of this seed 

 are sufficiently numerous to tabulate under a separate heading by them- 

 selves, the entries are given in Houghton's list, vol. vi. p. 240, for the 

 years 1694-5-6. They are all London prices, and are taken from 

 the newspapers in the Burncy collection. I have no means of saying 

 whether they are English or foreign products Rape and Cole seed ' is 

 mentioned by Mortimer *, as ' an excellent piece of husbandry and im- 

 :neni of land, especially marshy or fenny lands, newly recovered from 

 the sea, or any rich, rank fat lands.' According to him, it was grown in 

 Lincolnshire, but the best seed was usually brought from Holland. From 

 the Dictionary of Arts and Scitmts, we gather that it was * cultivated in 

 abundance in some parts of England,' for the purpose of making oil. 

 But both Mortimer and Loudon* mention the use of it as cattle and 

 sheep food, and litter as well. The latter says that lately (1815) the 

 price has seldom been below 30 the last. The prices are given here 

 in some cases by the quarter, but latterly by the last alone. 



pp. 867 869. 



VOL. vn. 



