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the common Barley, Peas, Beans, and Oats , there are feveraJ 

 worthy notice now Town in this County, that have been fcarce 

 ever heard of, much lefs ufed in fome others : Where by the way 

 let it be noted, that the word [unufual~\ is not fo much to be ap- 

 plyed to this, as other Counties, and that in thefe matters of Huf- 

 'bandry, I rather write for the information of Grangers, than the 

 inhabitants of Oxford-Jhire, as I muft hereafter in other Counties 

 for the information of this: There being many things in each 

 County thought common there and unworthy notice, that per- 

 haps in fome others will appear fo ftrange, that they will fcarcely 

 be believed. And fuch are 



24. Triticum (pica mutica rubriim, caule item rubro ; red ftalkt 

 wheat (miftaken by many for red Lammas') fo commonly called 

 from the rednefs of hsftraw, efpecially near the joints when the 

 Corn begins to turn ; which rednefs yet will vanifti for the moft 

 part away, when it is full ripe. This Corn, as I was informM, 

 was firft propagated from fome few ears of it pickt out of many 

 Acres, by one Pepart near Bunftable, about fifty years ago, which 

 fowed by it felf till it amounted to a quantity, and then proving 

 Mercatable, is now become one of thecommoneft grains of this 

 County, efpecially about Oxford; which yet becaufe not known 

 in many other places, I thought fit at leaft to mention it, and 

 the rather becaufe of its feldom or nev txfmut ting, a convenien- 

 cy thatpleafes the Baker and Husbandman both ; and yet itfeems 

 'tis not now fown about Thame and Watlington fo much as for- 

 merly , becaufe it brings not fo certain, nor fo good a bur- 

 then as 



25. Triticum (pica mutica albicante, grants rufefcentibus, white 

 eared red wheat, white Corn, or mixt Lammas, which latter name 

 I take to be as agreeable as any, becaufe of its participating both 

 of the white and red Lammas, having a white ear and red grain ; 

 whereas the white Lammas has both ears and grain white, "and 

 the red Lammas both red : Nor has this, as I was told, been long 

 in Oyford-fiire, it being firft advanced like the former from fome 

 few ears, and at laft being found to yield confiderably better than 

 moft other wheat, viz,, fomtimes twenty for one, it is now be- 

 come the moft eligible Corn, all along the Vale under the ChiU 

 tern Hills, and in far better eftecm than the red ftalk'd wheat, 



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