The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that great bufinefs of planting Hops, that is one of the fa- mous peeces of our Nation, hath not any thing been wrote near this fourfcore years that} can read of, and indeed then wae wrote a large difcourfe thereof, but ] remember noc his name, or elfe I fhould have here raifed up. his memorial, having done exceeding well thereon, but that all this time of fo large experience, none fhould get upon his fhoulders, and a little adde to his beginnings, is the unthankfulnefs and fhame of your great Hop-mafters. I fear mens {pirits are ftrangely private, chat have made excellent experiments,and yet will not communicate ; furely me-thinks plenty and publique fulnefs fhould not be fo much feared as rejoiced in. And fo I hope in this I have in fome meafure fupplyed my promife. CHAP. XXXYV. Treats of Woad , the Land belt for it , the nfage of it, and advantages thereby. SsesesOad. it isalfo a great commodity, it layes the WWF ( foundation for the folidity of very many co- NS VS lours more es a ep emai i Vie V ONG flayning, and excellent for holding its co our; RSVLMG dimof i fad holding “colour hgh be Woad- ed. It hath been one of the greateft Inrichmenrs tothe ma- fters chereof, untill the midft of our late Wars, of any fruit the land did bear. It is called Glaftum or Garden-woad, by the Italians called Guado, in Spanith and in French Paftell, in Dutch Wert , andin Englith Woad or Wade. It.hath flat long leaves like Beben rubrum, the ftalk is (mall and tender, the leaves are ofa blewith green colour. The {eed is likeft to an Afh-key orfeed, but not fo long , like litcle blackith tounges. The root is whiceand fimple. It is a very choyce feed to grow and thrive well; it beareth a yellow flower,
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