Improlpement of arable Land. 141 

 Aprily or the beginning of Majf^ or, indeed* 

 any part of that Monfh will do : Thus let it 

 lie all the Summer, but it it be in heaps of 

 Earth, ^nd lies thick, turn it as often as ydu 

 can. 



In like manner, if you are to fow or plant 

 in the Spring, ufe the fame Method,* be it 

 cither for Foreft Trees, Acorns, Corn, or 

 any other Garden-like, and Foreft Improve- 

 ments. For to conclude this Vievv^ this Ex- 

 pofure,does not only diffolvc the Lumpynefs 

 of the Earth, and correft the Sournefs and 

 Crudity thereof, but (as all Philofophers 

 own) there is both in the Sun and Air a ni- 

 trous and fulphurous Matter, which is of 

 particular Ailment in the Growth and En- 

 creale of Vegetables, Trees, c^r. And this 

 is very difcoverable both in fappy, juicy, or 

 fucculent Plants, call them which you will ; 

 that tho' they are out of the Earth, by the 

 help of Air and Sun only will for fome con- 

 fiderable time grow and fprout, fuch are Oni- 

 ons tyed up to a Stick, d^c. and amongft the 

 Exotics, the Aloes, Cereus's, &c. which, not- 

 withftanding their being out of the Earth, 

 readily obey the Diftates of Nature, and if 

 ihey have Air or Heat, fprout out and grow. 



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