Sett. VI. Agriculture and Vegetation. 



ing it public, unlefs they can make it com- 

 plete, or erecl: fbme plaufible iyftem. This 

 they may do in all other arts, but they 

 cannot in agriculture. The time fo feldom 

 comes about, and the progrefs of the ex- 

 periment is fo flow, that one perfon can 

 make but very few during his life. A 

 number of experiments are to be found, 

 not in the pofTeffion of one, but in the 

 hands of many. The fault, then, lies not 

 in the deficiency of fads j for chance and 

 deiign muft have been able to furnifh 

 many ; but of a certain, proper, and eafy 

 channel, through which they might be 

 conveyed to the world, without wounding 



the natural vanity of mankind. 







HITHERTO thefe fadts and experiments 

 have been confined to converfation alone, 

 and have died along with thofe who made 

 them. I would propoie a fimple remedy 

 for this. Let a committee of the Edin~ 

 burgh fociety, not exceeding five perfons, 

 be named for the branch of agriculture 



alone, 



