Flax
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An 1829 encyclopedia article on flax (Linum usitatissimum) covering the word's etymology, literary quotations, and the plant's cultivation. It discusses soils, sowing times, weeding, and pulling, then the watering (retting) of flax in canals, grassing, and lifting. Later pages describe breaking and scutching by hand, foot and water-mill machines, and the start of heckling. One engraving shows a flax-breaking machine.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1829
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 8
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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