( J3« ) 



tending this procefs may be eftimated from 

 fourteen pence to half-a-crown per ilopie. 



Sometimes flax is fufferedtoiland until near- 

 ly ripe, when the boll which contains the leed 

 is pulled off, by which method the feed is faved 

 without much injury to the line : but this ad- 

 vantage can only be taken upon good clay 

 land. 



SECTION LXVII. 



Hemp ; the Culture and Management till ready 



for Ufe. 



HEMP is managed in every refpedl like 

 flax, though of a very different nature -, for it 

 cannot be raifed to advantage but upon very 

 good land. Wharp is the bed to grow hemp 

 upon, and next to that a warm, fandy, or fome- 

 what gravelly foil; but it muft be rich, and of 

 good depth. 



The bed fed for fowing is that which is 

 brighcefl:, and retains the colour and fubftance 

 in rubbing. Three bufhels are fufficient tofow 

 ara aGre> but the richer the land is the thicker 



the 



