CROPS NOT COMMONLY CULTIVATED. 13£ 
jurious to the timber, by occasioning it to be lopped 
and cropped for poles, which it is not easy to pre¬ 
vent. 
CROPS NOT COMMONLY CULTIVATED. 
Asparagus. Grown upon a considerable scale ip 
the neighbourhood of Evesham—saw several flats in 
the fields; it is principally carried to the market of 
Birmingham, though at near thirty miles distance. 
Cucumbers. Grown, too, in large flats, in the en¬ 
closures north of Evesham; and disposed of as the 
foregoing article, principally at the market of the 
town of Birmingham. 
Onions. Grown in the same rich enclosures, and 
to supply the same demand; a prodigious quantity 
are sent to the Birmingham Michaelmas fair; an acre 
together, or thereabouts, are sometimes saved for seed, 
as I observed, in the enclosures north of the town of 
Evesham. 
Poppy Heads. A field of two or three acres of this 
plant (papaver somniferum) was growing at Norton, 
three miles north of Evesham, September 6, 1805; 
more thap half the field had the heads cut off and car¬ 
ried away, the remainder were growing, and the seed 
ripe. A girl, who lived near, told me they were sold 
to the druggists. 
Clover for Seed , is grown in qonsiderable quantities 
in various parts - of this county.; and, from its appear¬ 
ance in many cases, seems to be upon the aftermath, or 
second crop, which tends to impoverish the soil, and 
is by no means the true system. Where clover is 
intended 
