rape-seed

“Oh — no doubt on beets or on rape-seed oil, as usual!”

Strong as Death 2003

Recent Agricultural Returns show the total imports of oilcakes at 256,296 tons; that of linseed at 370,000 tons; that of rape-seed at 80,000 tons; and that of cotton-seed at 289,413 tons.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

In England, the foregoing species are extensively cultivated both for forage and for seed; the latter being used to a limited extent for feeding birds, but chiefly for the production of rape-seed oil.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

Leguminous seeds (peas and beans) contain about three per cent, while in rape-seed, linseed, and the other oily seeds, it reaches four per cent.

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

From the seed of the wild Cabbage (Rape, or Navew) rape-seed oil is extracted, and the residue is called rape-cake, or oil-cake.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The oil is obtained from the seed, and is considered superior to rape-seed oil, but is extracted with greater difficulty.

The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. Fearing Burr

He has Yorkshire pigs, Butler's hives, rape-seed, pine-apples, a dairy, a cheese factory, Italian book-keeping by double entry; but every summer he sells his timber and mortgages part of his land to spend the autumn with his mistress in the Crimea.

The Party 1917

It was a pleasant walk along the river-bank in the fertile alluvial, where the poppy in white flower and tobacco were growing, and where fields of yellow rape-seed, alternated with beds of rushes — the rape-seed yielding the oil, and the rushes the rushlights of Chinese lamps.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

A beautiful country is this — the chocolate soil richly tilled, the sides of the hills dotted with farmhouses in groves of bamboo and cedar, with every variety of green in the fields, shot through with blazing patches of the yellow rape-seed.

AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

The poppy is everywhere abundant and well tended; there are fields of winter wheat, and pink-flowered beans, and beautiful patches of golden rape-seed.

An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891