20 The Epitomy of the

and it will soon fall out’tis greater Corn,anditwillmake white Bread. White Wheat is like Pole-ear d wheat in the Bushel, but it hath Ayns, and theEaf is four square, and it will make white Bread.

In £j (sex they call flaxen Wheat, white Wheat.Red V Vheat hath a flat Ear, an Inch broad, full ofAyns, it is the greatest Corn, the broadest Blade, andthe greatest Straw; it will make white Bread,thoughit be the ruddiest of colour in the Bushel. EngliihWheat hath a dunEar,it hath few or no Ayns, and itis the worst Wheat, except Peck-wheat. Peck-wheathath a read Ear, full of Ayns, thin set, and oft-timesit is fi ntered, that is to fay, small Corn wringled ,and dried; it will not make white Bread, but it willgrow upon cold Ground.

To Soxv Barley.

E Very good Husbandman hath his Barley-Fahlow well Dunged, lying ridged all the deep andcold of the Winter ^ the which ridging makes theLand to lie dry, and the Dunging maketh it to bemellow and rank. And if a dry Season comes be- jfore Candlemas, or soon after , it should be castdown,and water Furrowed between theLands,and inthe beginning of ridge it up again ; sow in

every Acre 6ve London Bushels, or four at the least:Some years it may so happen that there is no Sea-sonable weather before March, to plough the Bar-ley-earth. The Husbandman as soon as he hath sow-ed his Pease and Beans, then let him cast his Barley-earth, and shortly after ridge it again', so that it besown before jfpril: And if the time of the year bepast, then sow it upon the casting. There are three