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Thefe lands being (Ituate fo very near to the metropolis, and 

 fo completely within the reach of the London mack, no 

 conclufion applicable to the general improvemt of the country 

 is to be drawn from their hufbandry or other management ; 

 particularly as a very large portion of this part of the 

 county is occupied with gcntlemens country refidences, and 

 otherwife employed under paflure, meadow, nurfery, and 

 garden ground. 



The mode of cropping through this diftrift, is extremely 

 various and irregular : it may be faid to include all thofe 

 changes enumerated in the practice of the preceding diftridls, 

 to which may alfo be added, that of fowing clover in the 

 fpring of the year amongft the wheat, at the fame time and 

 in the ufual quantities as with Ipring . corn : the reafon 

 afligned for this pradlice is, that in a dry feafon the clover is 

 very apt to overpower the oats or barley, and on the other 

 hand, when to prevent that evil, the clover is fown late in 

 the feafon, it frequently miiTes plant, and the clover crop 

 which is here of particular importance, is loft for that 

 feafon- Finally, the reafonable .objection of two fucceflivt 

 crops of wheat, with only one intermediate crop, and that 

 of clover, is not efteemed of fufficient confideration to 

 recommend the conftant pradlice of fowing, and always 

 cultivating that ineftimable grafs with fpring corn. 



By reference to the prefixed table, it will appear, that the 

 average annual rent of the enclofed arable land is i8s. 4d. 

 That of the open common field 15s. leaving a difference of 3s. 

 iid. per acre between the half yearly, arable and that which 

 is held in feveralty. That the pafture land averages 27s. 3d. 

 per acre. That the meadow land in feveralty upon the Roding 

 River equals 29s. at the fame time that the half yearly or 

 Lammas land, much of which is of a fuperior quality, and 

 abutting upon the River Lea is only rented at 25s, a confe- 



quent 



