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moft favoured foil, cabbage, or ever come to perfeftion, 

 were it not by feme means or other deprived of its tap root. 

 The expence therefore, of an intermediate tranfplanting be- 

 tween the feed bed and the field, to thofe who aredefirous of 

 excelling in the culture of cabbages, can bear no proportion 

 whatfoever, to the labour, expence, and difappointment, 

 that muft for ever await the want of fo material a training 

 and preparation of the infant plant. 



As the obfervations in this fecflion have been particularly- 

 applied to the crops, produced from the hufbandry vt the 

 lieavy lands, it follows regularly in courfe, that fomething 

 fliould now be noticed concerning thofe crops produced from 

 the hulbandry and management of the lands, which are of a 

 more gentle light and temperate nature. 



That the common hufbandry of this defcription of land 

 is greatly to be improved, is clearly manifefted by the details 

 of Great Bardfield, Aveley, and Hornchurch, where the 

 neceflity of fallowing is in a great meafure done away, by 

 the land being continually occupied under a ferics of pro- 

 fitable crops. That nature is never at reft, is no where 

 more clearly exemplified than in the cafe of a fallow field, 

 which being no longer employed in the fupport of a crop 

 that is valuable, is voluntarily putting forth weeds and 

 rubbidi, which it would furely have been wifer to have 

 prevented from growing, by the umbrageous influence of a 

 non-exhaufling crop, than to have encouraged their growth 

 for the fole purpofe, as it fliould feem of incurring a heavy 

 expence in deftroying of them afterwards. 



The quantity of gas or vapour that is hourly exhaling 

 from a fallow field after rain, or every frefh ploughing, is 

 improvidently loft j and argues a want of economy that is 

 truly reprehenfible : indeed it has long been a matter of 



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