. 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. , yet neither of these authors gives the least hint of their field culture : be that asit may, Ray, in 1686, informs us, that they are sown every where in fields and gardens,both in England and abroad, for the sake of their roots. Lisle also, in 1707, mentionstheir being common in Norfolk, Hampshire, Berkshire, and various counties. Thecommon story,
. 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. , yet neither of these authors gives the least hint of their field culture : be that asit may, Ray, in 1686, informs us, that they are sown every where in fields and gardens,both in England and abroad, for the sake of their roots. Lisle also, in 1707, mentionstheir being common in Norfolk, Hampshire, Berkshire, and various counties. Thecommon story, therefore, that their culture was first introduced by Charles Lord ViscountTownsend, cannot be true; but their culture was probably greatly improved by him,when he retired from public business to Rainham in Norfolk, in 1730. 237. Tliefirst notices of sheep being fed on the ground with turnips, is given in HoughtonsCollections on Husbandry and Trade, a periodical work begun in 1681. In 1684. Wor-lidge, one of Houghtons correspondents, observes, « sheep fatten very well on turnips,which prove an excellent nourishment for them in hard v\ inters, when fodder is scarce; 44 HISTORY OK AGRICULTURE. Part I. This, I have been informed, was brought. tor they will not only eat the greens, but feed on the routs in the ground, and scoop them hollow even to the \cr\ skin Ten aires, lie adds, KOTO with clover, turnips, &c, will feed as many Bheep as one hundred BCrea thereof WOllld before have done. (Hough-tons CoUectunu, vol. it. p 142—144.) 238. Potatoes) firsl introduced in 1S6S (330.), were at this time beginning to attractnotice. The potato, says Houghton, is a bacctferout herb, with etcttlent roots, bearing winged leaves, and a bell flower. ..first out of Virginia by Sir Walter Raleigh;and he Stopping at Ireland some wasplanted there, where it thrived very well, and to good purpose; for in their succeed-ing wars, when all tin1 corn above ground destroyed, this supported them;
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