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A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



demesne of Ingestrie will be a conspicuous proof of the success 

 of his pursuits. 



Ingestrie, Farm. <Sfc. The principal entrance or avenue to the 

 demesne of Ingestrie is by the south lawn, through a very magni- 

 ficent gateway of ancient architecture. The whole parish, manor, 

 lordship, and Jownship, belongs to Earl Talbot. It consists of a 

 capital mansion and demesne, gardens, plantations, park, lawns, 

 meadow and arable land, pleasantly situated at a moderate ele- 

 vation, on the south-west side the river Trent : the Grand Trunk 

 Canal is parallel to the Trent here on the opposite side. The 

 demesne in hand contains upwards of 1600 acres, of which about 

 300 acres are contained in a walled park, 200 in plantations, 500 

 of arable land in tillage, and the rest, about 600 acres, permanent 

 grass in lawns and meadows, on the Trent and elsewhere. 



The park and plantations are well stored with timber trees of 

 every sort, amongst which are some very fine oaks, and beeches in 

 great numbers, remarkable for size and vigour of growth. The 

 park is well stocked with deer, and shews marks of ancient culti- 

 vation, but it has long been at grass. 



The tillage land is managed nearly upon the Norfolk system, 

 in four divisions ; green crops, spring corn, clover, and wheat, 

 from 120 to 130 acres of each, according to the size of the inclo- 

 sures. The green crops comprehend the common and Swedish 

 turnips, cabbages, and cole. The turnips are cultivated in the 

 Northumberland system, in rows, and horse-hoed, and afterwards 

 hand-hoed till not a weed remains ; the cabbages in about three- 

 feet ridges in the usual way. Mr. Ginders, who has the care of 

 the whole, is satisfied by repeatedly weighing large breadths to 

 half an acre, that 35 tons* per acre is a full crop of Swedish tur- 

 nips: they are used for sheep and stall-feeding cattle. A con- 

 siderable lot of Swedish were (Nov. 1815,) topped and rooted, and 

 laid along a dry ditch upon a brushwood bottom^ and meant to be 

 covered with straw, and thus stored for use, the row being from 

 100 to 200 yards in length, and the ground might thus be culti- 

 vated for any early crop. 



The spring corn is of different varieties, barley on the dry land, 

 oats on the colder lands, a few beans sometimes on .the stronger 

 soils, and buck wheat on. a moderate scale for the pheasants and 

 poultry. It has been found very advantageous to lay land to 

 grass with buck wheat, as the straw, standing firm and upright, 

 never smothers the grass seeds. 



