io8 An ESSAY Chap/a. 



FdYth^ In the firft place then, they ought to carry 

 Vire ms, ^^^ ^j| ^j^^j^ Dung, and lay it in great Heaps* 

 as ufual 3 and then fcour all fuch Ditches and 

 Ponds, and fleece and pick up all the Dirt, 

 Mould, or other Improvements they can lay 

 hands on 5 and if it be cold Land, mix as 

 much Chalk, Pidgeon's Dung, Coal-aflies, 

 Sand, or other hot Dungs, or fuch-Iike Mate- 

 rials, and carry them into the Field likewife ^ 

 and at leifure proper times mix and blend 

 them well together : This I dare affure 

 them, will be of much more ufe than the fame 

 (ipantity of Dung alone, by which means the 

 Leftal will be confiderably encreas'd both in 

 Largenefs and Goodnefs. This, however, I 

 Ihall more fully handle in fome enfuing Sub- 

 jeds, and I (hall only obferve, that in hot 

 and dry Lands this is much more neceflary 

 than in others. 

 Concerning Before 1 quit this Chapter, it will be pro* 

 nnemng pg^ ^q ^j^ fomethiug Concerning the renew- 

 out Ground. lUg old, caukry ^yorn-put Ground, common- 

 ly attended with another Inconvenience as 

 bad as the former, which is. That it is poi- 

 foned with Weeds in fuch a manner, as one 

 can hardly give it room, but attempt at the 

 carrying it quite away, and beginning entire- 

 ly ^^ novo to fill the Space up with better. 

 AnOhjem- Tis truc, this is not much the Cafe in the 

 cnanfwer'd. Subjeft of this Difcourfc of Fovejl-Trees 5 but 

 becaufe the Improvement of Ground in gene- 

 ral, is what I am at prefent upon, I ftiall 

 lay down the beft Rules I fan : Ic may by 

 ^l chance 



