78 AnE SS AY on the Procefs Chap. 6. 



of like fort ^ we need only reflex a- while upon 

 thofe Mamtres that are found by conftant 

 Experience beft to promote Vegitation^ and 

 the Fniitfuhefs of the Earth. Thefe are 

 chiefly either parts o{ Vegetables^ or of 4m^ 

 mals^ which indeed either derive their own 

 T<loimJlment immediately from Vegitabk Bo- 

 dies^ or from other Animals that do fo. In 

 particular, the Bloody Urine^ and Excrements 

 of Animals^ Shavings of Horns and of Hoofs^ 

 Hair, Wooll, Feathers^ Calcind Shells^ Lees 

 of Wine, and of Beer, Afies of all forts of 

 Vegetable Bodies, Leaves, Straw^ Roots, and 

 Stubble^ turn'd into the Earth by ploughing or 

 otherwife, to rot and diffolve there : Thefe, 

 I fay, are our beft Manures 5 and being Vege-- 

 table Subjiances, when refunded back again 

 into the Earthy ferve for the Formation of 

 ether like Bodies. 



Not wholly to confine our Thoughts to 

 the Fields, let us look a-while into our 

 Gardens, where we fhall meet with ftill far- 

 ther Coiifirinations of the fame thing. The 

 Trees, Shrubs, and Herbs cultivated in thefe^ 

 after they have continued in one Station 'till 

 they have derived thence the greater part of 

 the Matter fit for their Augment, will decay 

 and degenerate, unlefs either frep Earthy or 

 fome fit Manure, be applied unto them. 'Tis 

 true, they may maintain themfelves there for 

 feme time, by fending forth Roots farther and 

 farther to a great extent all round, to fetch in 

 more remote Frovifion^ but at laft all will fail, 



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