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A fhare. ScmbIabIy,for to kill reeds^thcy give order to plough them np, with fome FeSrne likcwife- 

 laid upon the (hare. A rufhie ground muft be broken up and turned over over with the broad 

 fpade: but if it be ftonie,it would be digged with a mactockc or two tined ibrkei.Rough grounds 

 and given to beare fhrubsjif a man wouidftoikCjthe bell way is to burne them up by the roots. If 

 theplace He lowland be overmoift^thc only mcanes to make ic found and drie, is to draine away 

 the water by trenching.In cafe a ground do fland upon chaike or plaifter^thc ditches or rrcnciics 

 therein fhould bee lefrwide open: but if thefoilcbcc more loofe and not fofaft, they muft bee 

 ftrcngthened andkept up with quicke-fet hedgesjfor feare of falling.* or clfc they ought to bee- 

 made in fuch fort, as both the fides thereof bee well bedded and couched, bearing out a bellie 

 aflopc, and not digged plumbe downeright. Some would bee clofed up above and made very 



B feight and narrow/or to run diredly into others that are more wide and large: alfo,if occafion 

 doe lb require, the boctome of their channell would bee paved with pebble, or laid with good 

 gravell. As for the mouth and end therof(to wit/or entrance,and i(rue)thcy ought both of them 

 to be fortified and underfet with two ftonesat either fide, and a thirdJaid crolTe over them. Laft 

 ofalljif a ground run to wood and bee overgrowne therewith, Democritus hath taught us the 

 meancs how to kill the fame in this mannerjakc Lupine flowers,let them be fteeped one whole 

 day in the juice of Hemlockejand therewith befprinckle and drench the roots of the ihrubs thac 

 overrun the place^and they will die. 



Chap. vit. • 



^ pfj Sundrk forts of cor^e^Atid their fever dlmtur6\ 



NOw that wee have thus (hewed the way how to prepare a field for tobcarecornCjitremai- 

 neth to declare the nature of Corne. And tofpeake generally of all graincjthcreare two 

 principall kinds thcrofjtowitjfirft Fourment^containing under it Wheat and Barleyjand 

 fuch like:fecond]y,PulfejComprifing BeaneSjPeafejChicheSjSjc.Thedifcncc obferved both 

 in the onefoitand thcothcraisfo evident andplaine, that ncedlelTeit is for me to u(e any words 

 thereof. And as for the former kind called Fourmentjit is devided alfointofundrielbrtSjaccor- 

 ding to the feverall fealons wherein they bee fownc.Firft there is the Winter cornc^which being 

 fowed about the fetcing of the Itac Vcrgiliie, /.in November, lieth all winter long in the ground, 

 and there is nourilliedjasfor example^Wheat^RiCjand Barlcy.Secondly,Summer cornt-which 

 ■ D is put into the earth in Summer about the rifing of the forefaid if ar Vergilia/.the Brood-hen,to 

 witjinMayjnamelyjMilletjPanickejHorimiumjandlrio [two kinds of graine.] But note that I 

 Ipeake here of the manner uled in Italic. For otherwife in Greece and Alia, they fow all indiffe- 

 rently at the retrait or occultation ofVergilise.And to come again to otjrItalie,(bme grain there 

 is which isfowne there,both in Winter and Summer: asalfo^you inall have other corne fowed 

 in a third feafon,to witjin the Spring.Some there be who take for Spring-cornejMilletjPanicke, • 

 LentilsjCich Peafcjand the grainewherof*Fourmentieismade.But WheatjBarley.BeanesjNa- *.Mcai 

 vews,Turneps,andRapes,they hold for Sementina/.to be fowed at the proper and timely feafon 

 offeeds/.in Autumne.In that kind of corne which comprehendcth Wheatjthereis to be recko- 

 ned that graine which ferveth for provender and forage^and is fowne for beafts^and namely^that 

 E which they call dredge orballimong.LikcwifejintheotherkindjtowitjofPnlfejtheVetchesbee 

 comprifed.But that which is good mdifferently both for man and beaft,is the Lupine. All forts 

 of Pulfecalied in Latine LeguminajUnleffc it be theBeane, have but one root apeece , and fuch 

 bee as hard as wood, and full of fhoots,andthofe devided into forked braunches: andthe roots 

 of the cich Peafe run deepeft into the ground. But all other coriTt under the name of.Frumentai 

 have many fmali fillets or firings appendant to their roots,and otheiwile branch not.As for Bar- 

 ley jit chitteth and begins to fhew within feven daics after it is firft fowne. AH foits of Pulfe appear 

 above ground by the fourth day orthefiftattheuttcrmoff.And yctBeanesordinariiydoliein 

 the ground fifteen or twentie daies.Howfoevcr in ^gypt all Pulfe comraeth up by the third day* 

 In Barley, one end of the feed runneth to root downeward, and the other into blade, and that 

 F *bloumeth firff . Now,if you would know which end ferveth for the one and the other; certain ic *No marvdi 

 * isjthat the bigger and thicker part of the grain yecldeth root,and thefmaller the greeneblade.In ^gfof/^^^fg 

 all otherfeeds there is no fuch diverfitie,forfrom one and the fame end breakeih outbothroot 

 and greene blade. All kind ofcornecaryingfpike or eare,callcd Frumentajfhcw nothingbut the 

 greene blade during winter : howbeic^no fooner commeth the fpring,but they begin to grow up 



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