ij6 An ESS AY on the Frocefs Chap. 6. 



very many Plants that will not thrive in it. 

 Too much of that Liquor, in fome Plants, 

 may probably hurry the terrejirial Matter 

 thorough their T^eff^els too faft for them to 

 arrefi and lay hold of it. Be that as it will, 

 "'tis moft certain there are peculiar Soils that 

 fuit particular Plants. In England^ Cherries 

 ^re obferv'd to fucceed beft in Kent^ Apples 

 in HerefordJJnre^ Saffron in Cambridgejlnre^ 

 Woad'm two or three of our Midland Coun- 

 ties^ ^ni Teazles in SoTnerfetJInre. This is an 

 Obfervation that hath held in all Parts, and 

 indeed in all Ages of the World. The nioft 

 ancient Writers of Hufbandry Qi) took no- 

 tice of it 5 and are not wanting in their Rules 

 for making choice of Soils fuited to the Na- 

 ture of each kind of Vegetable they thought 

 valuable or vporth propagating. 



But, which is a farther Prc?^/ of what I am 

 here endeavouring to advance. That 5(?i/ that 

 is once proper and fit for the Produdion of 

 fome one fort of Vegetable, does not ever con- 

 tinue to be fo. No, in traBofTime it lofes 

 that Property ^ but fooner in fo?ne Lands, 

 i^luA later in other. This is what all who 

 are converfant in thefe Things know very 

 well. If Wheat, for Example, be fown upon 

 a Trad of Land that is proper for that Grain, 

 the firfi Crop will fucceed very well, and per- 

 haps tht fecond, and the thirdy as long as the 



(a) Vid. Varron:m, Colmdlam) pjdjiims Ret Ruftic^ 



Ground 



