68 O/'Hoeing. Chap. VL 



very near the Bodies of fome annual Plants, except 

 whilft they are young ; but in narrow Intervals, this 

 cannot be avoided at ev^ry Hoeing : 5 Tis true, that 

 in the laft Hoeings, even in the middle of a large 

 Interval, many of the Roots may be broken off by 

 the Hoe-plcugh, at fome confiderable Diftance from 

 the Bodies ; but yet this is no Damage, for they fend 

 out a greater Number of Roots than before ; as in 

 Chap. I. appears. 



In wide Intervals, thofe Roots are broken off only 

 where they are fmall - 9 for tho' they are capable of 

 running out to more than the Length of the external 

 Parts of a Plant •, yet 'tis not neceifary they mould 

 always do fo -, if they can have fufficient Food nearer 

 to the Bodies (a) of the Plants. 



And thefe new, young, multiply'd Roots are 

 fuller of Lacteal Mouths than the older ones ; which 

 makes it no Wonder, that Plants mould thrive fafter 

 by having fome of their Roots broken off by the 

 Hoe -, for as Roots do not enter every Pore of the 

 Earth, but mifs great Part of the Pafiure, which is 

 kfc unexhaufced, fo when new Roots ftrike out from 

 the broken Parts of the old, they meet with that Pa- 

 ffure, which their PredecefTors mifs'd, befides that 

 new Paiture which the Hoe raifes for them ; and 

 thofe Roots which the Hoe pulls out without breaking, 



hrior fit, plus prodejfe fojjiontm con-jcn'iat. Sed imperfurum Ratio 

 modum fojiulat. Lib. 4. Cap. 5. 



Neither is it altogether the Number of Hoeings that determines 

 the Degrees of Pulveration : For, Once well done, is Twice 

 done ; and the oftener the better, if the Expence be not exceflive. 



Poor Land, be it never fo light, mould have the mod Hoeings ; 

 becaufe Plants, receiving but very little Nourifhment from the 

 natural Pafture of fuch Land, require the more artificial Pafture 

 to fubfift on. 



(a) Ail the Mould is never fo near to the Bodies of Plants, 

 as ti= when the Row ftands on a high Six-feet Ridge, when the 

 middle of the Interval is left bare of Earth, at the lafl Hoeing ; 

 for then all the Mould may be but about a Foot, or a Pcot and 

 .half, diilant from the Body of each Plant of a Treble Row. 



and 



