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I. SPECIES. We have only one SPECIES of 

 cultivated flax linum ufitatiffimum. The 'va- 

 riety cultivated here is the blue, blow, or lead* 

 coloured flax -provincially, " BLEA LINE." 



II. SOIL AND SUCCESSION. Flax requires a 

 rich dry foil. A deep fat fandy loam is per- 

 haps the only foil on which it can be culti- 

 vated with advantage. 



OLD GRASSLAND bearing this defcnption 

 is confulcredas the propereft matrix for line. 

 It is not unfrequently, however,fown onarabls 

 land ; and when the foil is in heart, dry, 

 friable, and free from weeds, with good 

 fuccefs. 



III. SOIL-PROCESS and MANURE. 

 procefs generally confifts of a fmgle 

 whether of fward or of wheat-bubble. 



In the latter cafe, however, it is rnoftly bad 

 management. If line be fown on old corn- 

 land, it ought in general to be purged from 

 weeds, and rendered perfectly friable by a well- 

 worked SUMMER FALLOW. 



Manure is, I believe, feldom, if ever, fet 

 pn immediately for the line crop. 



F IV. SEED, 



