332 THE KITCHEN-GARDEN. [April. 
cloths, by means of the crooked awns upon the heads; which in the 
wild sort, are not sufficiently hooked. For this purpose they are 
fixed round the circumference of a large broad wheel, which is 
made to turn round, and the cloth is held against them. The heads 
are collected in August, as soon as they begin to turn brown, and 
exposed daily to the sun, till they become perfectly dry; care being 
taken to protect them from rain. 
This plant is propagated by sowing the seed, either in March or 
April, upon a soil that has been well ploughed, and it is observed, 
that good wheat land, is well adapted for the production of Teasels. 
The ground being ploughed and made fine, from one peck to two of 
seed, is generally sown upon an acre, and harrowed in, with a light 
harrovv. When the plants are up, hoe them in the same manner, 
as practised for turneps, cutting down all the weeds and singling 
out the plants, to about six or eight inches distance: as they 
advance, and the weeds begin to grow again, hoe them a second 
time, cutting out the plants to about a foot asunder. Keep them 
free from weeds during the summer and autumn, and the second 
year after sowing, the plants will shoot up stalks with heads, which 
will be fit for collecting, about the time before mentioned; observ- 
ing, that they are to be collected as they turn brown and ripen, and 
not all at once. 
They may also be cultivated by sowing the seeds, in April, in a 
seed-bed pretty thick, where they are to be kept free from weeds, 
and in the September or March following, planted into the ploughed 
field, being previously well harrowed and prepared; where they are 
to be set regularly in lines, at about a foot asunder every way. 
Soon after, they will shoot up, and, the autumn following, produce 
their heads. This article is indispensable, where manufactories of 
cloth are carried on. 
Woad, Weld, or Dyer's Weed. 
The Reseda Luteola, or Oyer's-weed, is used for dyeing all sorts 
of bright yellows and lemon colours; and is a profitable article to 
cultivate for the use of dyers. Its favourite soil is a tolerably rich, 
sandy ground, where it will grow to great perfection. The seed 
should be sown in April, at the rate of two quarts to an acre; when 
the plants are up, they must be set out with the hoe, like turneps, 
to the distance of six inches, plant from plant, and kept free from 
■weeds during the season. The May following they will shoot, and, 
if the soil be good, grow three feet high, and in June, w/ien in full 
^ower, the plants are to be pulled up, and set in small handfuls to dry 
in the field: when dry enough, they may be tied in bundles and 
housed, being careful to put them up loosely, that the air may pass 
between, to prevent fermentation. A small patch may be left for 
seed, which is not to be pulled up till perfecly ripe. Some people 
sow weld, with oats, and barley, as they do clover seed; and after 
these crops are off, weed them as well as possible, suffering no cat- 
tle to enter the field, till the June twelve months after sowing, when 
the weld is pulled and dried as before. 
