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The Midfimer following dig up all the Saffron hc3ids, 
and plant them again in another new Ground (dunged and 
ordered as aforcfaid) wherein no Saffron hath been planted, 
at lead not within feven years. 
The Flowers are to be gathered as foon as they come up^ 
before they are full blown, whether wet or dry. 
Pick out the chives clean from the (hells or flowers , and 
fprinkle them two or three fingers thick, veryequallya on 
a double S^jff(?»-paper. Lay this on the Hair.cloth of the 
Saffron-KWw^ and cover it with two or more Saffron-papers^ 
a piece of Woolen-cloth or thick Bays^ and a Gufiiion of 
Ganvasor Sack-cloth filled with Barley ^ftraw, whereonlay 
the Kiln-board, 
Put into the Kiln clean, throughly kindled Char-coal, 
Oven-coals, or the like, keeping it fohot that you caa 
hardly endure your fingers between the Paper and the Hair- 
cloth. 
After an hour or more turn in the edges of the cake with 
a Knife, and loofen it from the paper. If itftickfaft, wet 
theoutfide of the paper with a feather dip'd in Beer , and 
then dry the papers^ Turn the cake, that both fides may 
be of a colour^ 
If it fl:ick again to the paper loofen it , and then dry it 
with a very gentle heat , with the addition of a quarter of 
loo /. weight laid upon the Kiln-board. 
The Saffron-cake being fufficientjy dry*d is fit for ufe^and 
will laft good many years,being wrapt up and kept clofe. 
The beft Saffron is, that which confifts of the thickefl and 
ftorteft chives , of a high-red and Ihining colour, both 
without and within alike. 
Saffron is oftentimes burnt, and in knots , fpottedand 
mixed with the yellows that are within the fliells. 
It's ufually obferv*d,tbat one Acre doth yield, at the leaft, 
12 pounds of good 5/5^r<?;^ one year with another, and fome 
years 20 pounds. 
Good Safrcn is feldom or never fold at fo low a 
rate as 30 (hillings per pounds frequently at three pounds 
j^^r pound, and upward* Wherefore one Acre bearing 12 
pounds at 40 fliillings the pound, cometh to 24 pounds f^e?' 
annum. 6 I 2 The 
