1^8 Of the Management^ and 

 but the Samt'Fom w'\\\ laft lo or 12 Years 

 very well, and fometinues more, if ordered 

 as iliali be hereafter direfted. 



Thefe Kind of Improvements on poor 

 Lands arc fometimes admirable , and did we 

 not fee it by daily Experience, the bare Nar- 

 ration of it woukl fcarce meet with Credit : 

 But we are oblig'd to the 7)utch and Fkm- 

 tnings for them, how it fliould be, that poor 

 Ground fhould produce Vegetables towards 

 the enriching of it felf feems paradoxical ; but 

 thus they miy be fuppos'd to afFeft it (viz.^ 

 being by Nature of a porous, fucculent Qua* 

 lityj both in the Stems and Leaves they re- 

 ceive their chief Nouriftiment from the Sun, 

 Pain and Air, which all of them abound with 

 Nitre, and not altogether from the Ground, 

 which, tho'an Indulgent is a weak Mother and 

 could not efFeft it, were it not for the additio- 

 nal Htlps of the other Vegetative Co-efEcient 

 Powers in the Works of Nature, as not now 

 capitulated. 



But the greateft of Vegetative Improve- 

 ments for poor Lands are French or Buck 

 Wheat, and our common Vetches, and are at 

 any time as good as a Dunging. The(e fow'd, 

 as fhall be elfewhere direfted and plow'd in 

 before the Grain is ripe, yield a prodigious 

 Enrichment to poor hungry Lands, Vv^hen the 

 Ground is then pretty well tired, but not 

 quite exhaufied, plough it in the Spring, and 

 \n May fow it eiiher with Bmk^ Wheat ur 



Vetches 



