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rows two feet or two feet six inches between the rows. 

 In some places in the gardens there was a number of 

 asparagus beds, and beans were planted in the passages 

 between them. Vicia Sativa, tares were always sown in 

 broad cast, and not in rows, yet on ten feet broad stitches. 



Huru far ransa bart ogras emellan Bonor. 



How sheep clear away weeds between beans. 

 In one of the inclosures which in the aforenamed 

 manner were sown with beans, we remarked that they 

 had turned in thirty odd sheep, nagra OCh 30 far, which 

 went there and eat off the weeds between the beans, 

 which weeds they ate up, and bit off quite close to the 

 ground, but did the beans not the smallest harm. We 

 spent along time in carefully examining, vi gingO lange 



ocb. sago med noga flit efter, der Paren gingo 

 midt ibland Bonorna, where the sheep went amongst 

 the beans, whether they had not touched them, but we 

 could not mark a single leaf of them bitten. The weed 

 which grew here in multitudes, and the principal weed 

 was Sinapis (Linn Flor Svec. 548 — Rapistrum Flore luteo 

 C.B. or the common Aker-senapen [Sinapis Arvensis. 

 Linn. — Lilja, Skanes Flora. I 472 ; Brassica Sinapistrum, 

 J. Hooker, St. Fl. 1870, p. 30. Charlock, at Aldbury, 

 near Tring, " Curlock ; " at Whitwell, Herts, " Carlock ; " 

 at Rusper, Suss ; " Kelk," and in Sussex, generally 

 " Kilk,"] together with some plants of hvitrot* {Triticnm, 

 Linn. Flor. Svec. 105), both of which the sheep ate 

 greedily, especially the Charlock When the sheep had 

 eaten to repletion they lay down among the beans to rest, 

 at hvila.t They thus performed a double service, first, 



* So on p. 387 orig. but elsewhere " Qvickrot " as in Linn Fl. Sv, I05. — 

 Tril. repens. [J. L.] 



f A verb preserved in Eng. " To while away the time." Fr. Chomer, to 

 rest, 16 Cent. Chaumer, Provencal, Chaume, "the time when flocks 

 'rest:"' [J. L.] L - 



