Of O XFO%^V^SHI\E. \^ 
culiar a quality, that what-ever other Barly is Town tLere, it is 
turned forthwith into this we call rathe-ripe ; a feat, which they 
fay, no other Land will perform. But we are told by Dr. Ckil-^ 
drey% that in the weftern parts of Cornwall^ they fow a fort of 
^^jr/y near the Sca-fide, which they carry to Mill in eight or 
nine weeh time after they have fowed it. However, what we 
have here comes all from Fatney, but is not fo agreeable to our 
Oxford-fiire foil immediatly from thence, as when it has been 
fown elfewhere twice or thrice ; after which, it endures not a- 
bove three or four years^ but degenerates again into common 
Barly. Its convenkncy notwithftanding is very confiderahle in 
wet and backward Springs^ and moid Autumns, when many o- 
ther Country s lofe their feafons, and fome of the more Northern 
ones perhaps their crop^ the common Barly there never coming 
to be ripe^ whereas this may be fown at the latter end of May^ and 
will come to be ripe in the worft of Summers. This I heard 
of firft at Gaunt-houfe, (the Paternal Eftate of the Right Reverend 
Father in God^ John Lord Bijlop of Oxon^ onto^ tht Nobl eft En- 
couragers of this Vefign') but met with it after all over the County^ 
it being generally approved of by all forts of Husbandmen, And 
this is the only Barly fown in this County unknown in fome 
others. 
30. But of Peas there are many forts little thought of South- 
ward^ that pofTibly w^re they known, might prove as agreeable 
j 'to the foils there, as here, and as advantagious to the Husband- 
I man. Such are the Peas called Henly-gray , and another fort 
called Pved-JImnks^ for fredi new broken Land ; the Vale-gray for 
! firong ; and Uampjhire-Eids for nevo chalkt Land ; the {m?i\\Rathe-- 
I riptSy {or: poor ^nd gravelly ; and the Cotfmld Pea for four ground. 
And of Vetches ; in deep clay Lands they fow the Gore and pebble- 
Vetch ; in cold moift grounds the rathe-ripe Vetch ; and Dill or 
I Lentills^ m ^oox §lone-braftjhn&^ which area good podware for 
cattle^ and fown in many p^irtsof the County, 
31. As for Beans and Oats^ they fow only the common that 
are every where elfe ; but for Graffes^ the ufual name for any Her- 
hage fown for Cattle, efpecially if perennial (to pafs by the tri- 
\ folium -purpureum maju^ five fativum^ Clover -grafs% 2.n& Onobrychis 
Jpicataflorepurpureo, femine ecbinato^ commonly called Sain^-foin, 
* Britamia Baconica in Cornwall. 
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