cows. What remained to be laboured would 

 be but fmall, at the fame time, the crops 

 would be extraordinarily great. 



Extract from the Hufbandry of the An- 

 tients, page 176. 



' Cato fays, If you afk me what kind of 

 c farm is beft, I will anfwer in this manner. 

 c Suppofe one ihould buy an hundred juge- 

 p ra properly fituated ; of all fields the vine- 

 yard is the beft, if it produces plenty of 

 6 good vines. In the fecond place, is a gar- 

 " den that can be watered. In the third 

 " place, a willow-grove. In the fourth, an 

 " olive-field. In the fifth, a meadow. In 

 i the fixth, a cornrfield. In the feventh, a 

 ' wood that grows up again after it is cut. 

 u In the eight, a field planted with trees for 

 " vines. And in the ninth, a wood for 

 u mails." 



Although this is not a country for vines, 

 yet a great variety of fruit trees, and berries 

 of different kinds anfwer well. The gardens 

 might be fo planned out, that the water could 

 be let on and off at pleafurc. 



This extract, however, fhews, that the Ro- 

 mans were in the pradlice of watering their 

 gardens, which would benefit them much. 



Multiplying 



