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This revival of the art of husbandry received 

 very confiderablc encouragement from Cromw ill 

 himfclf. 



Sir Hugh PtATT was one of the moft ingeni- 

 ous huibandmen of the age in which he lived; 

 yet fo great was his modefty, that all his works, 

 except his Paradife of Flora, fcem to be pofthu- 

 mous. He held a correfpondence with molt of 

 the lovers and patrons of agriculture and garden- 

 ing in England; and fuch was the juflice and 

 modelty of his temper, that he always named the 

 author of every difcovery communicated to him. 

 Perhaps no man in any age difcovercd, or at leait 

 brought into ufe, fo many new kinds of manure. 

 This will be evident to thofe who read his ac- 

 count of the compoft and covered dung-hills, 

 and his judicious obfervations on the fertilizing 

 qualities lodged in fait, ftrcct-dirt, and the /ullage 

 of ftrects in great cities, clay, fuller's-carth, 

 moorifh earths, dung»hills made in layers, fern, 

 hair, calcination of all vegetables, malt-duft, wil- 

 low-tree earth, foapcr's aflies, urine, marie, and 

 broken pilchards. 



Gabrif.l Pi.attls may be faid to have been an 

 original Junius in hufbandry. He began his 

 obfervations at an early period iu the reign of 



Queen 



