Chap. XII. Of St < Foin. j6 7 



prevented from growing to its full Bulk, and Length 

 of Roots (k). 



The Difference is only this : People are accuftom'd 

 to fee Apple-trees planted at their due Diftance : but 

 few have feen St. Foin planted and cultivated at the 

 Diitance mod proper to St. Foin ; oj* ever confider'd 

 about it, fo much as to make the necerTary Trials. 



' I have ccnftantly found, that, upon doubling any 

 Number of narrow Rows, having equal Number of 

 Plants in each Row, the Crops have been very much 

 diminifli'd ; and, upon leaving out every other Row, 

 that is, leffening the Number of Rows to half, the 

 Crops are increafed -, and where Two Rows are wide 

 afunder at one End of a Piece, and near at the other 

 End, the Plants are gradually lefs and lefs, as the 

 Rows approach nearer together. 



We ought never to expect a full Crop of St. Foin 

 the Firft Year (/), if we intend to have good Crops 

 afterwards, and that it fhall continue to produce fuch, 

 for the fame Reafons that mud be given for planting 

 an Orchard at other Diftances than a Nurfery. 



The common Error proceeds from miftaking the 

 Caufe of a great or fmall Crop. 



Where the Spaces betwixt Rows are wide (if there 

 be not too many Plants in themj we always fee the 

 St. Foin grow large, and make the greateil Crop ; 

 but when 'tis young, or after cutting, we fee room 



(k) Horizontal-rooted Plants fuffer no greater Injury by their 

 Paiture's being over- itock'd than Cattle do ; Ixcauie their Failure 

 lying near the Surface of the Ground, they have it all amongft 

 them : But St. Foin, and other long Tap-rcoted Plants fuffer yec 

 more, becaufe great Part of their over itock'd Pafture is loll by 

 them all, when they hinder one another from reaching down to 

 it, by Ihortening one another's Roots, which cney do when they 

 all become Dwarfs by reafon of their Over-thicknefs. 



(I) But when it \\js been planted on rich fandy Lr.nd, and 

 proper, it has produced very great Crops the firft Year; but then 

 the Summer wherein it grew amongit the Barley, muft not be 

 reckoned as the iiril Year. 



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