X98 O/Luserne. Chap. XIIL 



of the Sun's violent Heat, to prevent the fpeedy In- 

 creafe of Grafs amongft it. 



How then can we expect Succefs in fowing it in 

 England, where Rains are yet more frequent, and the 

 Sun is weaker ? 'Tis not One Year in Ten, that the 

 natural Grafs is here fcorch'd up. In our rich Land 

 the Grafs comes to a Turf very foon, and poor Land 

 will not by the common Sowing bring Luferne to any 

 Perfection, tho' no Grafs mould annoy it. 



I have here feen Part of a Meadow Bread- plow'd, 

 and, when the Turf was dead, dug up and planted as 

 a Garden: After it had been drilPd with Carrots, ho'd, 

 and made, in all Appearance, perfectly clean, it was 

 fown with Luferne, which came up and flouriuYd 

 very well the Firfh Year, and indifferently the Second; 

 but, after that, the Grafs came, and the Luferne grew 

 faint ; and in Three or Four Years time there was no 

 more left, but juft to mew by here-and-there a fingle 

 poor Stalk, that there had been Luferne fown, ex- 

 cept one Plant of it, which was cleanfed of Grafs the 

 Third Year-, and this recover'd, and fent up Abun- 

 dance of Stalks for Two Ye^rs after it •, and then the 

 Grafs returning, that Plant dwindled again. 



I have often try'd it in the richer! Part of my 

 Garden, and conftantly find* that, however vigoroufly 

 it grows at the firft, yet it foon declines, when the 

 Grafs appears amongft it, which is always the fooner, 

 by how much the Soil (in England) is richer, unlefs 

 the Spade or Hoe prevent it. 



Here have been alfo many Fields of a poorer white- 

 im Soil fown with it, which are not very fubject to 

 be over-run with Grafs, as the rich Land is; anc} 

 tho* thefe were fo well till'd as fcarce any Grafs ap- 

 pear'd, during the many Years the Luferne liv'd 

 therein, yet it never grew to any Perfection here 

 neither; nor was there any one Crop worth much 

 more than the Cutting, it was always fo poor, thin, 

 &nd fhort. And, by what Intelligence I can get, all 



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