. 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. he has seensome of them upwards of forty pounds weight. The napus,he says, delights equally in colds, which make it bothsweeter and larger, while by heat they grow to leaves. Headds, the more diligent husbandmen plough five times for the napus, four times for therapa, and apply dung to both. (Nat. Hist., lib. xviii. cap. 13.) Palladius recommendssoo
. 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. he has seensome of them upwards of forty pounds weight. The napus,he says, delights equally in colds, which make it bothsweeter and larger, while by heat they grow to leaves. Headds, the more diligent husbandmen plough five times for the napus, four times for therapa, and apply dung to both. (Nat. Hist., lib. xviii. cap. 13.) Palladius recommendssoot and od as a remedy against flies and snails, in the culture of the napus and rapa.\\ bile the turnips « ere growing, it appears, persons were not much restricted from pullingthem. Columella observes that, in his time, the more religious husbandmen still ob-served an ancient custom, mentioned by Varro as being recorded by Demetrius, a was, that while sowing them they prayed they might grow both for themselves andneighbours. Pliny says the sower was naked. 152. Of crops used iii Ike arts may be mentioned the flax, the sesamum already men-tioned, and the poppy ; the two latter were grown for their seeds, which wcrebruisedfor Book I. AGRICULTURE OF THE ROMANS.
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