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Fruit trees, both in orchards and hedge-rows; apples 
and pears only a partial bearing ; walnuts a good crop. 
Waste land ; good light soil on rock ; fern and furze 
spontaneous. 
Hedge timber; very fine, mostly elm, some ash, oak 
in coppices; and in the valleys, aspen and poplar; a 
very large oak on the road. 
Ombersley; rich mixed loam, hop yards, but no pro¬ 
duce; turnips sown in hop yards; fruit trees various 
sorts, both in hedge rows and orchards, but fruit slight 
and thinly scattered. 
Wheat stubbles, ploughing for rye and vetches, 
beans and potatoes in some orchards; a seat of Lord 
Sondes’s ; exceeding fine elm timber in this neighbour¬ 
hood. 
Soil stronger, beans cutting, turnips grown, no wheat 
fallows here; near Worcester, garden, and plantation 
ground. 
Worcester is principally on the east of the Severn, 
but has a good many houses on the western bank ; the 
meadows above and below the city extend to half a mile 
in width, and are rich and of a first-rate quality, 
Worcester to Bevern.—Clover mowing for seed, 
wheat stubbles ploughed for turnips and rye, for spring 
sheep food. 
September 5, Worcester to Malvern.—Orchards, and 
all sorts of fruit trees ; soil deep rich loam, walnuts a 
crop, apples and pears slight. 
Crops grown; wheat, barley, beans, turnips; on the 
Teme at Powick is a large breadth of rich meadow 
land : the Teme is navigable but a little way from the 
Severn, having too much declivity, and being full of 
shoals and rapids. Dr. Nash observed to me, that 
Teme, or Tame, seems a name given anciently to rapid 
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