CHAPTER III. 



Of the Soil and Situation mojt proper for 

 raljing the Plant. 



r P H E beft ground for raifing the plant is. 

 a warm, kindly, rich foil, that is not 

 fubjedl to be over-run with weeds ; for from 

 thefe it muft be totally cleared. The foil in 

 which it grows in its native climate, Virgi- 

 nia, is inclining to fandy, confequently 

 warm and light ; the nearer therefore the 

 nature of the land in which it is planted in 

 England approaches to that, the greater pro- 

 bability there is of its flourifhing here. 

 Other kinds of foils may probably be brought 

 to fuit it, by a mixture with fome attenu- 

 ating fpecies of manure, but a knowledge of 

 this muft be the refult of repeated trials. 

 It muft however be remembered, that what- 

 ever manure is added to the foil muft be 



thoroughly incorporated with it. 



The 



