. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ch is grown in most parts of Spain, and the fruit used asfood, and dried for exportation. The gum cistus (Cistusladaniferus, fig. 96.) grows wild, and the gum which exudesfrom it is eaten by the common people. The caper shrubgrows wild, and is cultivated in some places. The orangeand lemon are abundant, and also the pomegranate. 732. Other productio
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. ch is grown in most parts of Spain, and the fruit used asfood, and dried for exportation. The gum cistus (Cistusladaniferus, fig. 96.) grows wild, and the gum which exudesfrom it is eaten by the common people. The caper shrubgrows wild, and is cultivated in some places. The orangeand lemon are abundant, and also the pomegranate. 732. Other productions, such as coffee, cotton, cocoa,indigo, pimento, pepper, banana, plantain, &c , were culti-vated in Granada for many ages before the West Indies orAmerica was discovered, and might be carried to such anextent as to supply the whole or greater part of Europe. 733. The rotations of common crops vary according tothe soil and climate. In some parts of the fertile plains ofMalaga, wheat and barley are grown alternately withouteither fallow or manure. The common course of cropsabout Barcelona, according to Townsend, is, 1. wheat, which, being ripe in June, isimmediately succeeded by 2. Indian corn, hemp, millet, cabbage, kidnevbeans, or I 3. 118 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. lettuce. In the second year the same crops arc repeated ; and in the third, the place ofwheat is supplied by barley) beans, or retches. In this way sis valuable crops are obtainedin three years. Wheat produces tenfold ; in rainy seasons fifteen, and in some placesas much as lifty, for one. Near Carthagena the course is wheat, barley, and fallow. Forwheat they plough thrice, and sow from the middle of November to the beginning ofDecember ; and in July they nap from ten to one hundred for one, as the season happensto be dry or humid. The Huerta, or rich vale of Alicant, yields a perpetual suc-cession of crops. Barley is sown in September, and reaped in April ; succeeded bymaize, reaped in September; and that b
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