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the common Barley^ Peds^ Beans^ and Oats , there ai-e feveral 
worthy notice now Town in this County^ that have been fcarce 
ever heard of, much lefs ufed in fome others : Where by the way 
let it be noted, that the word [unufual'] is notfo much to be ap- 
plyed to thi^^ as other Counties^ and that in thefe matters of Huf- 
bandrji, I rather write for the information of firangers^ than the 
inhabitants of 0-xford-Jhire^ as I muft hereafter in other Ccuntics 
for the information of this: There being many things in each 
thought common there and unworthy notice, that per- 
haps in fome others will appear fo ftrangc, that they will fcarcely 
be believed. And fuch are 
24. Triticum (pica muticd ruhrum^ cauk item rubra ; red ftalkc 
wheat (miftaken by many for red Lammob) fo commonly called 
from the rednefs of its ftraw^ efpecially near the joints when the 
Cor« begins to turn ; which rednefs yet will vanidi for the moft 
part away, when it is full ripe. This Corn^ as I was inform'd, 
was firft propagated from fome few ears of it pickt out of many 
Acres^ by one Fepart near Bunjlable^ about fifty years ago, which 
fowed by it felf till it amounted to a quantity, and then proving 
Mercatahle^ is now become one of thecommoneft grains of this 
County^ efpecially about Oxford^ which yet becaufe not known 
in many other places^ I thought fit at leaft to mention it, and 
the rather becaufe of its fddom or neverjinutting^ aconvenien- 
cy that pleafes the Baker and Husbandman both ; and yet itfeems 
'tis not now fown about Thame and JVatUngton fo much as for- 
merly, becaufe it brings not fo certain, nor fo good a bur- 
then as 
25. Triticum fpica mutica albicante^ granis rufefcentibu^., white 
cared redwheat, white Corn^ or mixt Lammas, which latter name 
I take to be as agreeable as any, becaufe of its participating both 
of the white and red Lammas^ having a white ear and red grain ; 
whereas the white Lammas has both ears and grain white, and 
the red Lammas both red : Nor has this, as I was told, been long 
in Oxford'Jhire, it being firft advanced like the former from fome 
few ears,, and at laft being found to yield confidetably better than 
moft other veheat, vit^ fomtimes tvpenty for one, it is now be- 
come the moft eligible Corn, all along the Vate under the Chil-^ 
tern Hills, and in far better eftecm than the red ftalk'd wheats 
or, 
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