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On Garlick. By Paul Busti. hives, 
Read January 9th, 1810. 
Blockley’s Retreat \st January 1810. 
Sir, 
Wishing to make it appear, that the importance of 
communicating the results of practical experiences, is 
the most useful manner of disseminating among the 
farmers, the knowledge of the precious art of agriculture. 
I venture to submit the observations I made on the best 
mode of extirpating the nauseous plant, that poisons so 
many of the fields in our neighbourhood : 
The Garlick. 
When in 1806, I bought Parkinson’s estate, and 
found the hills beyond the creek so much infested with 
that pestiferous vegetable, that unable to convert into 
palatable bread the wheat and rye which the tenant then 
resident on the place divided with me, I used the whole 
of my share for feeding the cattle. The next year I 
resolved to try whether I could destroy it. I met with 
no certain advice by consulting my neighbours, as their 
opinions were quite in opposition together. On two hills 
where in 1806 grain was raised, and clover sown, I 
pursued a different method. On one I caused a quan- 
tity of plaister to be spread, thinking that the quick 
vegetation of the red clover, would suffocate and stifle 
the garlick. The other hill was early m the spring 
ploughed and prepared for Indian corn. 
