128 On Wild Garlick. 
well rotted dung, on the pea fallow. About the middle 
of October, I harrowed in my wheat; sowed on it timo- 
thy seed, and rolled it in.. With all the advantage of 
earlier seeding, the wheat on the potatoe ground is in- 
ferior to that on the pea fallow ; though both look well.* 
The garlick is apparently destroyed on the whole field. 
I could in the winter, have collected many bushels 
of dead bulbs of garlick; which had_ been exposed, by 
the harrows, after the fall ploughings. In this way I have 
cleared many a field of the garlick, which infested them 
at the time. But in three years (often in two) the seed, 
which had been lying torpid, vegetated ; and produced a 
new crop of pests. By attacking these with a fall, and 
an early spring ploughing, I have banished the garlick 
for many succeeding years. My present flattering ap- 
pearance may turn out fallacious ; I therefore will post- 
pone my Ze Deum till I am certain of victory. It seems 
as if garlick, once rooting itself generally in a field, gains 
an endless possession in the soil. Like a chymical com- 
pound (which according to a recent discovery, can ne- 
ver be so decomposed as that all its parts will be com- 
pletely separated) in a greater or less degree, it forever 
* Every expectation I had formed respecting the wheat 
on the pea fallow, is confirmed. It far exceeds that on the po- 
tatoe ground.’ There has been a long drought; yet the pea 
fallow wheat is nearly as good, as a crop in a favourable season. 
I have drilled wheat (hoed) superior to it ; but it is among the 
best broadcast wheat, I have seen this séason. No garlick 
yet appears in the field. 
RP. 
15th Fune 1810. 
