.of promoting, by their subsequent destruction, the future 

 growth of others, yet the beneficial effefts of this system 

 of cultivation, by due attention to the vegetables which 

 certain soils have a tendency to produce is to be 

 extended much further than most farmers are aware of. 

 To attempt making such soils produce, without che- 

 Linical acids, other vegetables more serviceable to men and 

 cattle, would be premature, as it would be an endeavour 

 .to force nature to productions for which she is not as yet 

 prepared. 



not calcareous, containing much inert vegetable 

 ^matter or peat, have a tendency to produce wild sorel, a 

 plant considered in general as an indication of the want 

 of fertility in the soil. This is certainly correct, if the fer- 

 tility of the soil is only to be estimated by the use or 

 value. at market of the crop, but not as it respects vege- 

 tation itself ; for a soil of the above description often pro- 

 ^duces a most plentiful crop of sorel. In this case, as it. 

 applies to the further improvement of the land, the growth, 

 of sorel should ,as much as possible be encouraged, 

 -even by sowing the seed for this especial purpose. The 

 jvegetation of this plant is .no doubt promoted in 



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