es of Barly, one after the other: but if either
your soyle deny you this strength, or the distance of place bereaue you
of the commoditie thereof, then you shall vnderstand that Barly from a
hasell ground is the best seede, for the clay ground, and Barly from the
clay ground is the best seede, not onely for the hasell earth, but euen
for all mixt earths whatsoeuer, and the Barly which proceedes from the
mixt earths is the best seede for all simple and vncompounded sands or
grauells, as wee finde, both by their increasings and dayly experience.

{SN: The choise of seede-Beanes, Pease, and Pulse.}
Now for the choise of seede-Beanes, Pease, or other Pulse, the scruple
is nothing neere so great as of other seedes, because euery one that
knowes any graine, can distinguish them when hee sees them: besides they
are of that massie waight, and so well able to indure the strength of
the winde, that they are easie to be seuered from any weede or filth
whatsoeuer: it resteth therefore that I onely giue you instruction how
to imploy them.

You shall vnderstand therefore, that if your soyle be a stiffe, blacke,
rich, clay, that then your best seede is cleane Beanes, or at the least
three partes Beanes, and but one part Pease: if it be a gray, or white
clay, then Beanes and Pease equally mixt together: if the best mixt
earths, as a blacke clay and red sand, blacke clay and white sand, or
white clay and red sand, then your seede must be cleane Pease onely: if
it be white clay and white sand, blacke clay and blacke sand, then your
seede must be Pease and Fitches mixt together: but if it be grauell or
sand simple, or grauell and sand compounded, then your seede must be
either cleane Fitches, cleane Bucke, or cleane Tares, or else Fitches,
Bucke and Tares mixt together.

{SN: The choise of seede-Oates.}
Now to conclude with the choise of your Oates. You shall vnderstand that
there be diuers kindes of them, as namely, the great long white Oate,
the great long blacke Oate, the cut Oate, and the skegge: the two first
of these are knowne by their greatnesse and colours, for they are long,
full, bigge, and smooth, and are fittest to be sowne vpon the best of
barraine grounds, for sith Oates are the worst of graine, I will giue
them no other prioritie of place. The next of these, which is the cut
Oate, it is of a pale yealow colour, short, smooth, and thicke, the
increase of them is very great, and they are the fittest to be sowne
vpon the w