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culiar a quality, that what-ever other Barly is fown there, it is 

 turned forthwith into this we call rathe-ripe ; a feat, which they 

 fay, no other Land will perform. But we are told by Dr. Obil* 

 drey\ that in the weftern parts of Cornwall, they fow a fort of 

 Barly near the Sea-fide, which they carry to Mill in eight or 

 ninerr^J - time after they have foWed it. However, what we 

 have here comes all from Patney, but is not fo agreeable to our 

 Oocford-Jhire foil immediatly from thence, as when it has been 

 fown elfewhere twice or thrice ; after which, it endures not a- 

 bove three or four years, but degenerates again into common 

 Barly. Its conveniency notwithftanding is very confiderable in 

 wet and backward Springs, and moift Autumns, when many o- 

 ther Countrys lofe their feafons, and fome of the more Northern 

 ones perhaps their crop, the common Barly there never coming 

 to be ripe, whereas this may be fown at the latter end of May, and 

 will come to be ripe in the worft of Summers, This 1 heard 

 of firft at Gaunt-houfe, (the Paternal Eftate of the Right Reverend 

 Father in God, John Lord Biftop of Oxon, one of the Nobleft En- 

 couragers of this Vefign) but met with it after all over the County^ 

 it being generally approved of by all forts of Husbandmen. And 

 this is the only Barly fown in this County unknown in fome 

 others. 



30. But of Peas there are mzny forts little thought of South- 

 ward, that poffibly were they known, might prove as agreeable 

 to the foils there, as here, and as advantagious to the Husband- 

 man. Such are the Peas called Henly-gray , and another fort 

 called Red-flanks, for frefti new broken Land ; the Vale-gray for 

 flrong ; and Hampfhire-Kids for new chalkt Land ; the {mz\\ Rathe- 

 ripes^ for poor zndgravelly ; and the Cotfwold Pea for four ground. 

 And of Vetches ; in deep clay Lands they fow the Gore and pebble- 

 Vetch ; in cold moift grounds the rathe-ripe Vetch ; and Dill or 

 Lentills, in poor slone-brajh land, which are a good podware for 

 cattle, and fown in many parts of the County. 



31. As for Beans and Oats, they fow only the common that 

 are every where elfe ; but for Grafts, the ufual name for any Her- 

 bage fown for Cattle, efpecially If perennial (to pafs by the trU 

 folium purpureum majws five fativum, Clover-grafs; and Onobrychi* 

 fyicataflorepurpureo, femine echinato, commonly called Sainft-foin, 



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