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with scabiosa succisa, intermixed, alsobetOriy (betonica 
officinalis,) and yarrow (achillea millefolium). 
In this route, I must notice one very neglectful slo¬ 
venly practice ; it is very common to find heaps of 
ditch soil thrown up as compost, which is very good 
and commendable ; but, instead of turning it over with 
dung to enrich and mellow, it is suffered to remain a 
nursery for thistles, which, in such situations, in a great 
number of instances, had ripened its seed, which was 
dispersing all over the country in the most shameful 
manner by the wind. 
At Uddington are lime kilns, the stone being raised 
on the spot, but coal for burning it brought from a 
distance ; it is used for manure on turnip land or 
fallows. 
In this tract are several woodlands ; pass Newland, a 
considerable common or waste land in Salwarp, to 
Droitwich and Worcester, through a fine, sound, and 
fertile, enclosed country; on which the management is 
miscellaneous, no particular system, a good proportion 
of pasture ; hedge rows well stocked with timber ; fruit 
trees and orchards occasionally, gentlemen’s seats and 
plantations : near Worcester a considerable tract of 
garden and nursery ground, but no hop yards in this 
district. 
October 3, from Worcester along the west bank of 
the Severn to Stourport.—Country delightful; cherry 
trees, walnut, chesnut, and orchards, with all kinds of 
fruit trees ; rye sowing on wheat stubbles ploughed up 
for early spring sheep feed ; turnips generally good, 
some fields of them abounding with the wild mustard, 
or chadlock (sinapis arvensis,) and young sheep turned 
in to eat them out. Hop yards, village of Shrawley, 
turnips in hop yards, and wheat stubbles in orchards, 
a scattering 
