riue it of all vse, but rather leaue
it to the discretion of iudgement, and for my selfe, onely hould this
opinion, that though it may very wel be spared from the generall vse of
Wheat and Barly in this kingdome, yet for hastie-Pease, French Beanes,
and such like pulse, it is of necessary imployment, both in rich and
poore mens gardens. And thus much for the setting of Corne.

CHAP. V.

_Of the choice of seede-Corne, and which is best for which soyle._

Hauing thus showed vnto you the seuerall soyles and temperatures of our
English land, together with the order of Manuring, dressing and tillage
of the same, I thinke it meete (although I haue in generall writ
something already touching the seede belonging to euery seuerall earth)
now to proceede to a particular election and choice of seede-Corne, in
which there is great care and diligence to be vsed: for as in Men,
Beasts, Fowle, & euery mouing thing, there is great care taken for the
choice of the breeders, because the creatures bred doe so much
participate of the parents that for the most part they are seene not
onely to carry away their outward figures and semblances, but euen their
naturall conditions and inclinations, good issuing from good, and euill
from euill: so in the choise of seede-Corne, if their be any neglect or
carelessenesse, the crop issuing of such corrupt seede must of force
bring forth a more corrupt haruest, by as much as it exceedeth in the
multiplication.

{SN: The choise of seede Wheate.}
To proceede therefore to the choise of seede-Corne, I will begin with
Wheate, of which there are diuers kindes, as your whole straw Wheate,
the great browne Pollard, the white Pollard, the Organe or red Wheate,
the flaxen Wheate, and the chilter Wheate. Your whole straw Wheate, and
browne Pollard, are knowne, the first, by his straw, which is full of
pith, and hath in it no hollownesse (whence it comes that Husbandmen
esteeme it so much for their thacking, allowing it to be as good and
durable as reede:) the latter is knowne by his eare, which is great,
white, and smooth, without anes or beard vpon it: in the hand they are
both much like one to another, being of all Wheates the biggest,
roundest and fullest: they be somewhat of a high colour, and haue vpon
them a very thicke huske, which making the meale somewhat browne causeth
the Baker not all together to esteeme them for his purest manchet, yet
the yeeld of flower which cometh from them is as grea