Improveynent of arable Land. 1 4^ 



of thole that lye under them: Thus do we: 

 often fee Clay turn every thing near it intO: 

 its own Nature, whilft Barren, as avariti-r 

 oufly devour thofe Earths, that either Art or 

 Nature has made prohfic. 



The firft Kind of Earth that I would, 

 fpeak of, and which indeed in, refpe(3: of its 

 Goodnefs, requires little Help or Improve- 

 ment, is Loame or Brick Earth h it being 

 ftrong in its own Nature, and needs little 

 more than the Spade or Plough ( either 

 for the Gardener or Husbandman) to bring 

 it into Order and Culture. This is the 

 very beft of our Wheat Land^ and this in all 

 Sorts of Compofures of Earth, the Gardener 

 or Florifts efteems the beft, as being of 

 a clofe and Butter-like Contexture, that 

 is, perfecSt as to fmell, tafte and hand- 

 ling, and has in fliort all the good Properties, 

 we have lately affignd to good Earth: Bjt 

 this, as is already hinted, requires (except: 

 it be where it abounds much with Sand) a 

 Fallowing, and if for Corn, one Years reft 

 in four or five, and a folding of Sheep to 

 give it new Vigour and Ferment. If you 

 fow it then with Wheat, it ought to have a 

 Summers Fallow : if with Barley f which is 

 a Spring fowing) a Winter Fallowing, except 

 it be a mild Loame, and much inclin'd to 

 Sand, which I would more properly call (and 

 fo I fliall fpeak by and by of it) Sand or fan- 

 dy Loame, or the very beft of Sands. To 

 M 2 finifti 



