The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 82
t Fortis Green is 4:^ acres, of which 1;^ acre is occupied by thehouse, pleasure-ground, kitchen-garden, shrubberies, &c., and3 acres are exclusively devoted to sheep. There are two modes of stocking a farm with sheep upon asmall scale. First Method. Buy in September, or in the beginning…