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for an excellent fodder both by Men and Beads, efpecially Eorfes^ 
which are purged, and made fat with it in the Spring time in 8 or 
I o days. But no more of this, or any other graffes^ they having 
all (but i?<i;-^r^7^) been already defcribed. 
3 5 . But befide Graflcs, there have fome other Plants been cul- 
tivated here of no mean ufe, fuch as Cnicws^ five Carthamws fati^ 
manured haftard Saffron^ fomtimes called Sajflore^ for dying 
of fcarlets ; and therefore by fome called alfo the fear/et Flower^ 
whereof there was once a confiderable quantity fown ac North- 
Afton by Colonel Vernon^ the Seeds being planted in rows about 
a foot diftant, for the more convenient howing and keeping it 
clean from weeds : In thefe row^s it rifes with a ftrong round (talk 
three or four foot high, branching it [elf to the top, where it 
bears a great open fkaly head, out of which it thrufts forth ma- 
ny gold yellow threds of a moft orient and (liining colour, which 
they gather every day as faft as they ripen, and dry them well; 
which done, it is fitforfale, and dying of fcarlet. 
36. And 2iho\xt Hampton and Clanfield^ they make fome profit 
of fowing Carum five Careum^ or the Carui of the Jhops^ com- 
monly called Caruwaies^ which they fow in March or April ^ as 
they do Parfly ; the firfl year (it feems) it bears no Seed, but the 
next it feeds and (liatters, and fo will hold fix or feven years 
without new fowing, or any other care or trouble, befide keep- 
ing it from weeds : the encouragement they have to fow it, is 
the value put on it ; one pound of this being efteemed by the 
Grocers^ worth almoft two of that which they have from Lon- 
don. 
'2, J. And this is all I have met with concerning cuttivatedplants 
worthy taking notice of in this County, but that like the wild In- 
digenows o«e5,thefe have fomtimes accidents that attend them too : 
for fuch, and no other, were the two ears of Wheat branched 
from one llalk, and fix ears of barley from another, found at 
Fulhrook. near Burford^ and given me by Mr./^^^'^'^^'^i ^ince deceaf- 
ed. Nor have I more to add concerning them, but that I find 
few that I have mentioned to be noted by Mr. Ray, 
38. Next Herbaceous plants^ 1 proceed to the Shrubs^ araongfi: 
which I met with but little extraordinary, only the Haw-thorn at 
Bampton^ in the howling-green hedge^ bearing white berries or haws ^ 
which indeed I take to be a great curiosity : for though in Flowers 
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