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The common Weld is accounted 

 a rich Dyers Commodity, and is of 

 great Advantage, considering the 

 i fmall Expence of its Culture : it will 

 grow upon the pooreft Sort of Land, 

 I provided it be dry; tho' upon a 

 ! middling Soil it will grow much 

 larger. The Seeds of this Plant 

 fhould be fown the Beginning of 

 Auguf, foon after they are ripe ; 

 when it will come up with the hrft 

 moift Weather, and will grow very 

 ; ilrong the fame Autumn, provided it 

 i be fown by itfelf ; for mod People 

 fow it with Corn, which is very 

 ) wrong; for that hinders its Progrefs 

 ! greatly, and occafions the Lois of 

 1 one whole Year. When the Plants 

 I are come up pretty lirong, you 

 1 mould hoe them (as is pra<ftiied with 

 Turneps), in order to deftroy the 

 1 Weeds, as alfo to cut up the Plants 

 I where they grow too thick, which 

 i will greatly improve them ; and the 

 fucceeding Spring, if the Ground 

 produces many Weeds, you mould 

 I give it a fecond Hoeing in April, 

 i which will preferve it clean from 

 Weeds; for, after that, the Weld 

 i will grow, and prevent the Weeds 

 from coming to an Llead after- 

 ward. 



You mufl be very cautious in the 

 gathering of it, that the Seed be not 

 over-ripe, fo as to fall out, and that 

 neither the Stalk nor Seed be under- 

 ripe ; becaufe if it be, both will be 

 fpoil'd. It mull be pull'd up, and 

 bound in little Handf uls, and let to 

 dry, as you do Flax ; and then houfe 

 it carefully, that you make not out 

 •the Seed, which is eafily beat out, 

 and fhould be fown (as was before 

 dire&ed) foon after it is ripe. 



This Seed is commonly fold for 

 .about ten Shillings pet Kuihel, or 

 more ; a Gallon of which will fow an 

 Atre ; for it is very fuuU. 



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There are fome who recommend 

 the fowing this Seed in the Spring, 

 mixing it with a Crop of Barley or 

 Oats, and only harrowed in with a 

 Bum, or rolPd with a Roller. Buc 

 this is not a good Method : for the 

 Barley or Oats will ftarve the Weld, 

 and make it very poor : and, man/ 

 times, the Seeds which are fown irt 

 the Spring do not grow, or not 

 come up, till the Autumn follow- 

 ing 5 whereas that fown in the Be- 

 ginning of Auguft rarely fails to come 

 up foon after, and will be much 

 Wronger, and fit to pull the fucceed- 

 ing Summer, when the other is al- 

 ways two Years before it is pull'd. 

 The Dyers ufe it for dyeing brighc 

 Yellows and Lemon Colours. Jt \% 

 much fown in Kent, efpecially about 

 Canterbury ; and often yields from 

 Forty Shillings to ten or twelve 

 Pounds an Acre. This is fuppofed 

 to be the Plant which the antient 

 Britons dyed themfelves with 



LYCHNIDEA. Fide Phlox 



LYCHNIS, Campion. 

 The Characters are ; 



The Cup of the Flower is whole, 

 and either tubulous or /welling, and, 

 for the mojl part, furronvd: the 

 Flower con/if s of fve Leaves y which 

 expand in form of a Clo-ve-gillifower, 

 and are generally heart-Jhaped: the 

 Ovary, which rifes in the Centre of 

 the Calyx, becomes a conical Fruit, 

 which is wrapt up in the Fhwer-cup ; 

 and has commonly one Cell, which is 

 filed with Seeds, which are reunitjh 

 angular, and kidney -fraped. 

 The Species are ; 



1. Lychnis cor on aria Dicfcoridis 

 fativa, fore dilute rubente. C. B. P, 

 Garden or Rofe Campion, with a 

 pale- red Flower. 



2 . Lychnis coroner i a Diofcoridis, 

 fativa, fore rubro, velut fammeo, 

 fui'g-ri;. Q. B, P. Rofe Campion, 



with 



