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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    purely and then will come up the flower without the leaf, and in September the flower of it appeares like Crocus that is blew, andein the middle of it comesup two or three chives broad,which chives, that is the very Saffron and no more,which you may take betwixt your fingers and hold it, and caftaway all the reft ofthe flower, and: and referve that onely, and fo they pickitsand they muft pick it every morning carly, or elfe ‘it returnes back intothe body of ir, or the eartlragain , untill next morning, and fo from one to another, fora months {pace willic bear Saffron, you muft get.as many pickers as may over- comeitbefore it ftrike in again atthe very nick in the morning. It will grow to bear 2 crops and then it muft betakenup, and planted newagain, andthen it will yeeld good ftoreot fetsto {pare, which cannot be had no other way, it muft be taken up at & -] af * muft doe makeakiln of clay, not halffo big asa Bee hive, and ferveexcellent well, for this fervice, alittle {mall fire of char- cole willferve to dry it, and itmuft be carefully tended alfo. Three pounds of wet Saffron will make one of dry Saffron. An Acre of Land may bear 14 or rg 1+ of Saffron, ifvery good, but ifbut 7 or 8 J. it will dothe work; And one Acre of it will bemannaged with no great charge, I donot believe it can come to 4 }. an Acre, ithath been fold from 20 f.. a pound to 5 1. apound. Isisan excellent advantage, and brings in at worft a faving, bargain, but it may poflibly be wotsh 30 or 40}. an Acre; but if it come but to 7 or 8 1. it Jofeth not, fo Dhave given thee a brief {tory wherein 1 would have been more large but having loft my obfervavions uponit which I took when I wasupon the very Lands, and received full {atisfaftion in every particular and member, or branch thereof, but as yet it hath not fell under my own experience; therefore l give the heads as I re- member, as they were delivered unto me upon the place, though Ihave forgot many of them, to incourage to the work. fome part of Suffolk, and at at Saffron Walden, and betwixt that and Cambridge is very much of it in their common fields, and
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