it. YORKSHIRE. 83 



Hay-feeds bolcus lanattts. 



Rib-grafs flantago lanceolatus. 



Cinquefoil bedyfarumonobrychis~fa\ntfo\n. 



Thefe fpecies are cultivated feparately or 

 mifcellaneoufly, as foils and circumftances 

 point out. The DURATION of the intended 

 ley is the firft thing confidered ; therefore the 

 principal divifion of the fubjedt is into 



1. Temporary leys. 



2. Perennial leys. 



I. TEMPORARY LEYS. The annual ley^ 

 which is now common in moft parts of the 

 kingdom-, and the biennial ley, which is pre- 

 valent in Norfolk, are almoft equally ftran- 

 gers in this Diftric~t. 



Fallowing for wheat is flill a common 

 practice here. Clover ftubbles are feldorn 

 ufed as matrices for that crop. An ill- 

 grounded notion prevails that wheat after 

 clover breeds quicks ! 



If land be (locked with couch when the 

 clover is fown, the fucceeding wheat-crop, 

 no doubt, by occupying the foil fo long with 

 only a fingle plowing, increafes the quan- 

 tity. There is no worfe management than 

 fowing wheat on a foul clover Icy ; but this 

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