i8 for a Country Seat. 



and Sandy Gravel, or Pafture Mold and Sandy 

 Gravel mix*d together 5 both of them being 

 excellent in their Kinds, as they keep the 

 Earths they lie in from binding, by which 

 means the Roots of Trees meet with lefs Ob- 

 ftruftion, and in which indeed they take par- 

 ticular Delight. 



But as the Choice of good Earths is not 

 always in the Purchafers Power, but he is 

 fometimes forc'd to content himfelf with thofe 

 Kinds that are in themfelves indifferent : It 

 feems requifire, v/e ihould give a general 

 Narration of all Sorts of Earth, as well thofe 

 that are barren, as thoft that are indifferently 

 good 5 that he may chufc the one and refufe 

 the other, unlefsthey can be amended at a 

 reafonable Expcnce. Grounds are then fim- 

 p!e or compound : Simple are Clays, Sands, 

 or Gravels, compound where thefe Earths are 

 mixed, or all Mixtures of Earth ; Clay, Sand 

 or Gravel may be all good, and very fit to 

 p!ant all manner of Trees in ^ and likewile 

 may be very evil and barren 5 for all Earth 

 limple or compound doth participate with 

 the Climc wherein it lieth, as hot or cold, 

 moift or dry, and where the Ground or Earth 

 participates of all the Elements equally, there 

 it is the more fruitful : All Grounds may be 

 known by their feveral Charafters, as by the 

 Climc or Scituation of the Continent. Some 

 Grounds naturally produce Weeds, as Mal- 

 lows, Nettles, Docks, Hemlocks, or fuch 



like, 



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