Chap. XL CULTURE OF ANNUAL PLANTS. 6r 



different kind of plant intended to be cultivated, as we fhall fliew 

 hereafter. A fpace of feven or eight inches, which Mr. Tull calls 

 partition, is left between thefe rows. The fpace occupied by the 

 rows, we rtiall, with gardeners, call the bed; and the large inter- 

 vals between the beds, we ihall call alleys. 



We have (hev/n that the drill ought to diilribute more or lefs 

 feed in the rows, according to the nature of each plant. To know 

 the fpace that fliould be left between the feeds in the rows, it is 

 neceffary to obfcrve how much ground a flrong and vigorous plant 

 of each kind takes up, that the drill may be fet fo as to drop each 

 grain, at the difVance that a very thriving plant requires : for we 

 may be alfured that all the plants will arrive at their greateft per- 

 fedlion, when cultivated according to the new hufbandry. 



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Of the dijlance at 'which the rows JJjould be fown. 



TX7HAT may at firfl fight feem to be a confiderable objedion 

 ^^ againft the new hufbandry, is, the width of the alleys or 

 {paces between the beds. Many will be furprifed that fo much 

 land fhould lie, as they think, loft. But a trial of the new method 

 will foon remove this prejudice. 



At harveft, it will be found that moft of the grains of wheat 

 have produced twenty or thirty ftalks a-piece ; whereas, in the 

 common huftandry, they feldom exceed two or three. If it were 

 poifible to diftribute each of thofe twenty or thirty ftalks in the 

 alleys, the earth would appear as well covered as when the whole 

 is fown in the ufual broad-caft way. But as the ears are likewife 

 larger, and filled with better grain, it follows, that, the crop may 

 be in faft, more plentiful. 



In the common way of fowing, the earth appears at firft fight well 

 covered with plants. But as all thefe plants cannot find fufhcient 

 nourifliment, and it is impofhble to afhft them by culture, many 

 of them perifh before they ripen, the greateft part of them remain 

 poor and Itinted, and the feed is almoft entirely loft : whereas by 

 the new method, all the plants find fufhcient nourifliment, and 

 being affifted from time to time, by proper culture, become ftrong 

 and vigorous ; infomuch that we have (ttn lands cultivated in the 

 common way, not yield the fifth part of the produce of lands fown 



and cultivated according to the new method. 



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