Of OXFO\T)-SHI%E. \\i 



for an excellent fodder both by Men and Beafts, efpecially Hotfes, 

 which are purged, and made fat with it in the Spring time in 8 or 

 i o days. But no more of this, or any other grajfes, they having 

 all (but Ray-grafs) been already defcribed. 

 , 35. But befide Grafles, there have fome other Plants been cul- 

 tivated here of no mean ufe, fuch as Cnicws, five Cartbamwsfati* 

 vus, manured hafiard Saffron, fomtimes called Saflore, for dying 

 of fear lets ; and therefore by fome called alfo thefcarlet Flower, 

 whereof there was once a considerable quantity fown at North-' 

 Afton by Colonel Vernon, the Seeds being planted in rows about 

 a foot diftant, for the more convenient howing and keeping it 

 clean from weeds : In thefe rows it rifes with a ftrong round ftalk 

 three or four foot high, branching it felf to the top, where it 

 bears a great open fkaly head, out of which it thrufts forth ma- 

 ny gold yellow threds of a moft orient and fhining colour, which 

 they gather every day as fair as they ripen, and dry them well ; 

 which done, it is fit for fale, and dying of fcarlet, 



36. And about Hampton and Clanfield, they make fome profit 

 of fowing C arum five Careum, or the Carui of thefheps, com- 

 monly called Caruwaies, which they fow in March or April, as 

 they do Parfly ; thefirft year (it feems) it bears no Seed, but the 

 next it feeds and (Tiatters, and fo will hold fix or feven years 

 without new fowing, or any other care or trouble, befide keep- 

 ing it from weeds: the encouragement they have to fow it, is 

 the value put on it ; one pound of this being efteemed by the 

 Grocers, worth almoft two of that which they have from Lon- 

 don. 



37. And this is all I have met with concerning cultivated pi ants 

 worthy taking notice of in this County, but that like the wild /- 

 digenows ow,thefe have fomtimes accidents that attend them too : 

 for fuch, and no other, were the two ears of Wheat branched 

 from one ftalk, and fix ears of barley from another, found at 

 Fulbrook. near Burford, and given me by Mr. ?ourden,fmce deceaf- 

 ed. Nor have I more to add concerning them, but that I find 

 few that I have mentioned to be noted by Mr. Ray. 



38. Next Herbaceous plants, I proceed to the Shrubs, amongft 

 which I met with but little extraordinary, only the Haw-thorn at 

 Bampton, in the bowling- green hedge, bearing white berries or haws, 

 which indeed I take to be a great curiofity : for though in Flowers 



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