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cloths, by means of the crooked awns upon the heads ; which in the 

 wild sort, are not cufficiently hooked. For this purpose they are 

 fixed round the circumference of a large broad wheel, which is 

 made to turn round, and ihe cloth is held against them. The heads 

 are collected in August, as soon as they begin to turn brown, and 

 exposed daily to the sun, till they become perfectly dry ; care being 

 taken to protect them from rain. 



This plant is propagated by sowing the seed, either in March or 

 April, upon a soil that has been well ploughed, and it is observed, 

 that good wheat land, is well adapted for the production of Teasels. 

 The ground being ploughed and made fine, from one peck to two of 

 seed, is generally sown upon an acre, and harrowed in, with a light 

 harrow. When the plants are up, hoe them in the same manner, 

 as practised for turneps, cutting down all the weeds and singling 

 out the plants, to about six or eight inches distance : as they 

 advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, hoe them a second 

 time, cutting out the plants to about a foot asunder. Keep them 

 free from weeds during the summer and autumn, and the second 

 year after sowing, the plants will shoot up stalks with heads, which 

 will be fit for collecting, about the time before mentioned ; observ- 

 ing, that they are to be collected as they turn brown and ripen, and 

 not all at once. 



They may also, be cultivated by sowing the seeds, in April, in a 

 seed-bed pretty thick, where they are to be kept free from weeds, 

 and in the September or March following, planted into the ploughed 

 field, being previously well harrowed and prepared ; where they are 

 to be set regularly in lines, at about a foot asunder every way. 

 Soon after, they will shoot up, and, the autumn following, produce 

 their heads. This article is indispensible, where manufactories of 

 cloth are carried on. 



Wood, Weld, or Dyer's Weed. 



The Res s da Luteola, or Dyer's- weed, is used for dying all sorts 

 of bright yellows, and lemon colours ; and is a profitable article to 

 cultivate for the use of dyers. Its favourite soil is a tolerably rich, 

 sandy ground, where it will grow to great perfection. The seed 

 should be sown in April, at the rate of two quarts to an acre ; when 

 the plants are up, they must be set out with the hoe, like turneps, 

 to the distance of six inches, plant from plant, and kept free from 

 weeds during the season. The May following they will shoot, and, 

 if the soil be good, grow three feet high, and in June, when in full 

 flower, the plants are to be pulled up, and set in small handfuls to dry 

 in the field : when dry enough, they may be tied in bundles and 

 housed, being careful to put them up loosely, that the air may pass 

 between, to prevent fermentation. A small patch may be left for 

 seed, which is not to be pulled up, till perfectly ripe. Some people 

 sow weld, with oats, and barley, as they do clover seed ; and after 

 these crops are off, weed them as well as possible, suffering no cat- 

 tle to enter the field, till the June twelve months after so\ving, 

 when the weld is pulled and dried as before^ 



