[ 30S 3 



No. 6, mid Jle-fized, white, meally, and exceeding good 

 to eat. 

 No. 7, large, white, and ill-flavoured. 



The bulhels above-mentioned are heaped bufhels, 

 weighing on an average 7olb. per bufhel. 



Article XXXVII. 

 On Planting of Wafte Lands. 



gentlemen, Norwich, Feb. 20, I "J 88. 



THOUGH planting wafte land be not imme- 

 diately within the province of agriculture, 

 yet the publick advantage, of which you are the 

 promoters, may be more effectually ferved by the 

 ftudy of certain modes of planting it, than from 

 annual crops -, and efpecially as planting becomes 

 eventually a ufeful auxiliary to cultivation. I there- 

 fore wifh to prefent to your notice, as a poflible 

 example to other parts of the nation, the practice 

 and fuccefs of a neighbouring gentleman (Sir Wm. 

 Jerningham) on the mod unpromifing ground, 

 perhaps, that any fuccefsful planter has hitherto 

 attempted j notwithftanding there is a certainty 

 from experience to believe, that the flubborn foil 

 may be meliorated, and the apparent fterile be made 

 productive ; and by properly timing the period for 



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