Chap. V. POT-HERBS. 309 



*' more than ten bufliels on an acre : and if the beans which are 

 " cultivated in the common method are obferved, it will be found 

 " that more than half their Hems have no beans on them j for by 

 " ftanding clofe, they are drawn up very tall, fo the tops of the 

 " ftalks only produce, and all the lower part is naked ; whereas in 

 " the new method, they bear almofl to the ground ; and as the 

 " joints of the ftems are fliorter, fo the beans grow clofer together 

 " "on the ftalks," 



CHAP. V. 



Experiments on Pot-herbs, Sec. 



de Chateau-vieux, being of opinion that if pot-herbs could 

 * be cultivated in the fame manner as wheat is in the new 

 hufbandry, a great expence in dung and labour might be faved, 

 made the following experiments. 



" I begun, fays he, by retrenching the dung : tho' the fpot I chofe 

 for my firll trial had not received any for feveral years. It had in- 

 deed been well prepared by the plowing of the preceding year, when 

 one half of it bore barley, and the other oats. I now made it into 

 a bed, the middle of which was direftly over the laft year's furrow. ■ 



" I plowed this bed, on the 25th of September, 1 751, in the fame 

 manner as if it had been intended for wheat. I planted on it a 

 lingle row of white cabbages, which I watered, to make them take 

 root the better. The length of this bed was 160 feet, and its 

 breadth fix feet feven inches. 



" That I might be able to make a juft comparifon between the 

 cabbages of this bed, and thofe of the kitchen garden, I planted a 

 fpot of ground in this laft place, the fame day, with the fame fort 

 of plants. This fpot had been extremely well dug, and plentifully 

 dunged by the gardener, who took all poliible care of thefe plants 

 all the fummer, and weeded and watered them as often as was ne- 

 ceflary. Inftead of cabbaging, moft of them ran up in height ; upon 

 which I plucked them up, and planted others in their ftead. 



" I bellowed the fame care and culture on my rows of cabbages 

 in the bed, as if they had been wheat. 



" On the 9th of March, 1752, the alleys were flirred with the 



plough. On the 25th of April, I gave them a fecond llirringwith 



the cultivator. On the third of June, they had a third ftirring with 



the plough: and on the 20th of July, I made my gardener hand- 



I hoe 



