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Whatever may be the earlinefs of the feafon, 
- with refpect to the fpringing of either ray-grafs or 
meadow-grafs, water-meadows will be a monib be- 
fore either. 
And notwithftanding the great advantages that 
have been derived from the introduction of green 
winter crops, fuch as turnips, rape, cabbages, &c. 
(advantages to ibis kingdom almoft Leyond eftimate) yet 
this may. be laid down asa certain maxim, that, 
whether the winter be hard or mild—whether the 
Spring be late or early—nature will always have, in 
this climate, au “ interregnum’ between the end of one 
year's food and the beginning of another. The fame 
temperature of the air in the f{pring, which brings 
on the grafs, will occafion all the green winter crops 
to run to feed, and not only to lofe their own nou- 
rifhing quality, but to exhauft the land on which 
they grow. 
A moment’s refle€tion will convince every man, 
that nature muft unavoidably and conftantly leave 
this cha/m in the year’s food. | Winter, though dri- 
ven into a {mall compafs, és /till winter, and art alone 
can expunge it from the kalendar. Hot-houfes and hot- 
beds have, in a great meafure, done this for the gar- 
dener. Water-meadows, which are “ bot-beds for 
* grafs,’”’ will as effectually do it for the farmer. 
How neceflary, therefore, is it, to imprefs the 
value of this branch of hufbandry on the minds of 
all the Jand-owners in the kingdom, 
It 
