RUSTICATED WORK, in Architecture, is a species of decoration for walls, wherein the joints between the courses, and between the separate stones in each course, are strongly defined by sunk channels or grooves. Rusti cation gives an appearance of solidity to the surface, and was frequently employed by the Romans. Italian architecture presents.many examples of rusticated work, and there are several specimens among the public buildings of London.
RYE. This valuable plant bears naked seeds on a flat ear furnished with awns like barley. The straw is solid, the internal part being filled with a pith, which makes it valu able for litter, and still more so for thatching. The value of the straw is often nearly equal to that of the grain. Rye grows on poor light soils which are altogether unfit for wheat. It was formerly raised in considerable quantities in England, either alone or mixed with wheat, and was then called Ateslin, from the old French word mes11., which means mixed. The
meslin when ground produced a very whole. some and palatable household bread. Rye is at present raised in very small quantities in England.
In England rye is mostly sown as a green crop, and when fed off early in spring with sheep, the land is invigorated, and will bear excellent potatoes or turnips the same year.
The preparation of the land for rye is the same as for wheat, except that in very light soils. no more ploughings are required than will clear the ground of weeds. If rye is sown after harvest, one ploughing only is usually given. It will thrive upon rich wheat soils, as well as upon lighter, and, as it throws out numerous, stems in rich land, it is the more.profitable as fodder, although the crop