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7(j the Fourth. ^^1>Iq new difcovery of manure in 

 the fouth parts of Glocellerfliire, except about 

 Briftol. The dung and urine of pigs, fatted by 

 the wafh of the diflillers, are found to be excellent 

 manure for any kind of land, but more efpecially 

 cold clays. The lees or fuds of foap-makers are 

 alio found of great ufe, as well as the urine of pigs, 

 by being fprinkled over paflures in the fame man- 

 ner as the roads are watered about London. Care 

 muft be had to due quantity, or the verdure will 

 be deftroyed. Experience is the beft guide, 



Te the Fifth, — All drefTings on cold wet lands 

 will be very ineffedlual, unlefs the lands are firll 

 dried by under-draining. Soot is 'the mofl bene- 

 ficial, only the hay will fmell of it. 



Ti? the Sixth. — Stone is the beft and moft laft- 

 ing; wood is a fubftitute, and will be lafting alfo 

 if conftantly wct^ if not, it will foon be rotten, 

 and then the trenches will clofe. 



'To the Seventh,— The wood which ftands beft 

 againft weft winds, on high expofures, is the beech 

 and the black mountain fallow, (Salix Latifolia 

 Rotunda^ being the thirteenth fpecies of Miller) 

 \i^ith a plumb-tree leaf^ on moorifti and boggy- 

 ground, the black alder, 



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