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order. I have cultivated broad clover as a crop 

 for more than thirty years pad, and cannot fay that 

 I have here had occafion to remark any thing of 

 late that is in the lead particular. 



During all my practice I have ever found, that 

 although broad clover fometimes affords as good a 

 crop the fecondyear as the firft, (obferve, I call the 

 firft year of clover, that in which it firft yields a 

 crop, not that in which it is fown) and on fome 

 occafions even a better; yet I have ever found that 

 that was in fome meafure cafual, and that no one 

 could fafely rely on it for a full crop the fecond 

 year. This is the cafe at prefent, as it ever has 

 been in this part of the world. 



There is no doubt, however, that broad clover is 

 much lefs apt to fail in fome foils than others. It 

 is a plant that thrives bed on a firm weighty foil. It 

 therefore does very well in clays of a certain kind; 

 (you will obferve I make a diftinction between thri- 

 ving well, and long life) but on all clayey foils, and 

 more particularly on foft fpungy foils that have 

 lately been brought into culture from moor, it is 

 extremely liable to be thrown out by the feverities 

 of the winter weather, and generally more fo than 

 on fome others : — a firm hazel loam, or even a very 

 weighty, or what we here call zfloarp, rich friable 



mould* 



