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26. Tritkum (pica ariflath glumi* hirfutps, the long Cone Wheat, 

 which yet is the beft of any, to be fown in rank, clay Land, its 

 ffalks being reedy and not fubjeft to lodging ; and by hedges 

 fides, becaufe the Birds cannot eat it ; for which reafon alfo it 

 muft be good in Inclofures, befides its being the leaft fubject of a- 

 ny Corn yet known, to the inconveniency of Wildews : This 

 fort alfo yields extreamly well, but its Flower being courfe and 

 not pleafing the Bakers, it is feldom fown but under the men- 

 tioned circumftances, except fomtimes mixt amongft the other 

 wheats. 



27. Triticum multiplex, five [pica multiplici, double ear'd wheat, 

 fo named for that it has divers [mall ears iffuing out of the (ides 

 of the greater, and is fown about Biffiter and Weflonon the Green, 

 but it not proving agreeable to the foils thereabout, nor advan- 

 tagious to the Husbandman, it is almoft quite difufed, though 

 I hear it fucceeds better about Fritwell and Souldern. They fow 

 alfo a Wheat about Wefion on the Green, which from the hanging 

 of its ear they call Pendule wheat, but fufpefting that it differs 

 in nothing from Cone, it being ariflk munitum, andglumis hirfutk? 

 I forbear as yet to pronounce it any other, though I am told that 

 the Pendule has a redder and more flender, and Cone a whiter and 

 fuller ear ; and that Cone endures longer, and Pendule but a very 

 (hort time here, it yielding for the firft year fomtimes twenty for 

 one, and within two years after dwindling away, fo as not to be 

 worth fowing ; which time expiring, they fupply themfelves 

 again out of Berks-JJ/ire, at Ahington Mercat, whereof more (if 

 I find it to be a different hind) when I come into that County. 



28. All which, 'tis true, in Oxford-Jhireare fo commonly fown, 

 that they cannot indeed in this refpect be ftiled unufual: but be- 

 caufe fcarce ever heard of in the South-eaft parts of England, . 

 I thought it convenient at leaft to hint them. And fo likewife 

 our 



29. Hordeum diflichum precox, or rathe ripe Barly, defervedly 

 fo called from its early ripening, it having been fomtimes fown 

 and returned to the Barn again in two months time, and often in 

 nine or ten weeks- This Barly, 'tis true, is no native of Oxford- 



fiire, only much fown here, it being all had either immediatly 

 or mediatly from Patney in Wilt/hire, whence by fome 'tis alfo 

 called Patney Barley : Where the foil (as I am told) is of fo pe- 

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