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the mark, and assumed for his doctrine a universality 

 of application, which practice will not warrant. 1 

 am perfectly confident that no light and friable soil 

 will carry permanent pasture or meadow, with the 

 same profit which belongs to the old grass bottoms 

 of the Hartford meadows, of the blue-grass region, 

 and of Somersetshire. I am equally confident that no 

 stiff clayey soil will pay so well for the frequent work 

 ings which vegetable culture involves, as a light 

 loam. 



Travellers who are trustworthy, tell us that the 

 grape from which the famous Constantia wine is 

 made, at the Cape of Good Hope, is grown from the 

 identical stock which, on the Rhine banks, makes an 

 inferior and totally different wine : and my own obser 

 vation has shown me that the grapes which on the 

 Lafitte estate make that ruby vintage w^hose aroma 

 alone is equal to a draught of ordinary Medoc only 

 across the highway, and within gunshot, produce a 

 wine for which the proprietor would be glad to 

 receive a fourth only of the Lafitte price. 



Lands have their likings then, though Mr. Tull be 

 of the contrary opinion. Any crop may indeed be 

 grown wherever we supply the requisite conditions 

 of warmth, moisture, depth of soil, and appropriate 

 dressings ; but just in the proportion that we find 

 these conditions absent in any given soil, and are 



