FEBRUARY. 77 



plant, if it be intended for transplantation. There 

 are some objections to it, on comparison with the 

 ruta b:iga, particularly its being still harder, and 

 growing more with fangs, whereby it is more diffi- 

 cult to get it up clean, but its impenetrability by 

 frost will always render it a valuable article, and 

 more so stiil, if complaints should continue to be 

 heard of the latter plant degenerating here, and 

 rotting 'with frosts. The preparation of the nur- 

 sery should be the same as for the preceding ar- 

 ticles. 



PARE AND BURN GRASS-LAND. 

 This husbandrv is mentioned in the present 

 month, merely that if the north -cast winds should 

 happen to set in the last week of it, the farmer 

 may not lose the opportunity. Those are the most 

 evaporating and drying winds of the year, so that 

 this operation never goes on better; and it is to 

 be borne in mind, that the land should be ready 

 pared, to receive their influence when they blow. 

 In the Calendar for March, when this work should 

 be in full 'operation, I shall examine the question 

 in relation to the expediency of this husbandry, 

 and endeavour to shew, that there is no other way 

 of breaking up old grass, and all waste lands, 

 heaths, commons, downs, moors, fens, mountains, 

 &e. that is comparable to it. I have pared and 

 burnt layers of my own sowing, which were only 

 ten years old, thai did well, and yielded plenty of 

 a^hes ; and this husbandry is so very valuable, that 



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