AGRICULTURE 



II. District round Norwood, Hayes, &c. : 



(a] In the common fields : 



(i) fallow; (2) wheat ; (3) barley or oats, with clover. 



(b) In the inclosed lands : 



(i) wheat ; (2) barley and clover ; (3) turnips. 



III. Fulham : 



(1) barley ; (4) wheat ; 



(2) coleworts (off in March) ; (5) turnips or tares (manuring well after the 



(3) potatoes (off in October); barley). 



IV. Edmonton : 



(1) potatoes ; (4) oats, tares, pease or beans to be 



(2) wheat ; gathered ; 



(3) turnips on wheat stubbles ; (5) wheat (manuring well). 



V. Heston : 



(1) wheat; (4) turnips; 



(2) barley with clover, mown twice ; (5) wheat. 



(3) pease or beans to be gathered ; 



VI. Harmondsworth : 



(1) clover, well dressed with coal ashes ; 



(2) pease, beans, or tares ; 



(3) wheat, then turnips on the stubbles, fed off ; 



(4) barley; (5) oats. 



VII. Chiswick : 



(1) vetches for spring seed, or pease, or beans, to be gathered green ; 



(2) turnips (good on inclosed land) sold straight to London cowkeepers ; 



(3) wheat ; (4) barley or oats. 



(manuring before pulse, wheat, and barley). 



A better course here would be : 



(1) pulse ; (3) oats or barley, with clover; 



(2) turnips ; (4) wheat (manuring well before pulse). 



This would exhaust the soil less, but the cultivators are bound by the Lammas tenure 

 not to have any clover. 12 



We notice here three main points of interest, viz., the decline of 



fallow ; the restrictions of the Lammas tenure ; and the fertility of 



Heston, which still kept up the high reputation which it possessed in 

 the sixteenth century. Thus Foot says : 



The lands about Heston are chiefly of a strong loam, and celebrated for producing the 

 finest wheat in the county ; the skin is thin, the corn full and bold, and the flower 

 white, or, as the millers term it, fair. 13 



The barley of Middlesex, especially that of Chelsea, Fulham, and Chis- 

 wick, was also ' distinguished for its good quality, and has been much 

 sought after for seed ' ; M it was the ' whitest, most thin skinned, and 

 mellowest barley in England.' u Foot deplores that this fine barley was 

 being supplanted by vegetables grown for the London market, but this 

 was doubtless because the demands of a large city make variety above all 

 things necessary. 



11 Peter Foot, Gen. View of Agnc. ofMidd. 20. " Ibid. 22. " Ibid. 24. " Ibid. 24. 



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