^5 j^vfwers to ^leries on Vegetaticn. Feb. 



ther then or afterwards dcpolitcd i\\ it, into thai Hate of mucilage 

 allowed to be the pabulum, or eiTe tial tood of plants. 



6. Partly both ways ; but probably the foil is alfo benefited by 

 the action of the air, as above ated, on account that, in the cul- 

 ture of thefe crops, it is frcquLiitly ilirred and cxpoled to the 

 elements. 



7. I ihould think they do. — Sec anfwer to query i. of this 

 head. 



8. To the firil claufe I have to anfwer, certainly ; but I think 

 tl;ie fecond claufe by no means explicit. If it has been found 

 to aiifiucr in France, why put the quellion in Britain ? or, why 

 was it not flated wliether the trees were abfolutely planted in heaps 

 of llones, without any kind of foil, or if heaps of Hones were 

 merely laid round their Hems on the furface of the earth ? But I 

 am inclined to think this too much o- a hearjay llory. It is /aid 

 to have been fucccjsfuliy tried in France. Many wonderful things 

 favour of France 1 



9. In freili weather, every day, Icfs or more ; in funfhine, from 

 • bout nine in the morning to five in the evening, lefs or more, 

 according to the fcafon of the year. Even in the time of fevere 

 froft, if bright funfhine, a little air muft be admitted, and in fmall- 

 er or greater quantity, according to the hardinefs or tendcrnefs of 

 the plants in queftion Air o\\\:h\. iikewife to be admitted and ta- 

 ken off by degrees, i. c. the full quantity for the day fliould not 

 be given in the morning ; perhaps only one half or a third, increa- 

 fing as the fun advances in the horizon ; taking it off in like man- 

 ner as the fun retreats in the afternoon, alw^ays obferving to fliut 

 up feveral hours before funfet. 



ic. Languid, and ultimately perifli. 



n. By no means. 



1 2. There at leaft wouldyt'^-Tz to be an antipathy between the ar- 

 tichoke and other plants, as weeds, if fown ever fo thick, will not 

 grow undf'r them, although they will thrive very well befide them ; 

 but perhaps this is owing more to the Ihade, than any inimical qua- 

 lity in the leaves of this plant. It has hittix /aid that \^ heat will not 

 thrive within I don't know how many hundred yards of barberry, 

 and nothing more ridiculous could polTibly have been Jaid ; for I 

 can aver, for one, that 1 have repeatedly feen as fine wheat as ever 

 grew, in a field enclofed on all fides with a barberry hedge, in a 

 wild, uMclipt, Parubby Hate, and wliich produced Bowers and fruit 

 in abundance. 1 am as httlc intliiicd to think thtre is fympathy 

 between plants, except fuch as a favourite foil and fituation/f^fw- 

 ingly begets between fuch plants as happen to affeft one and the 

 fame. But it might be afkcd, Have plants a will, a dcfire, or in- 

 I clination, 



