Chap. XIII. Of Luserne. jgp 



Experience proves, that every Soil in this Ifland is too 

 rich, too poor, or too cold, for the Luferne Improve- 

 ment by the common Husbandry. 



I believe every one will be confirmed in this, who 

 fliall upon full Inquiry find, that, amongfr the great 

 Quantities which have been fown in this Kingdom 

 in that manner, never any of it was known to con- 

 tinue good and flourifhing Three Years ; and that, 

 on the contrary, never any one Plant of it in any 

 warm Soil, cultivated by the Hoeing manner, was 

 known to fail here, or in any other Country-, as long 

 as the Hoeing Cor Digging about it, which is equi- 

 valent,) was continued to it with proper Repeti- 

 tions. 



A Multitude of fuch hoed Plants have I known, 

 and are now to be feen' in both poor and rich Lands: 

 Therefore it feems pofiible, that Thoufands of Eng- 

 lish Acres may be capable, by the Hoeing Culture, 

 to produce Crops of Luferne every Year for an Age. 

 For as the greater Moifture, and lefs intenfe Heat of 

 this Climate, are, upon the Accounts mentioned, in- 

 jurious to Luferne, yet this is only to fuch as is fown 

 and cultivated in the common Manner, becaufe our 

 Climate, upon the very fame Accounts, is very ad- 

 vantageous to hoed Luferne. 



In hot Countries, when the Summer is drier than 

 ordinary, the Sun fo fcorches it, that they have fewer 

 and much poorer Crops, than in moifter Summers; 

 viz. only Four or Five, inftead of Six or Seven-, but, 

 in the dried Summer I ever knew in England, hoed 

 Luferne yielded the mcft Crops. 



Our Summer Days are longer, have more of the 

 Sun's Warmth, and leis of his fiery Heat; he che- 

 rifhes, but never burns Luferne, or any other hoed 

 long Tap- rooted Plant in England. 



The well hoed Earth, being open, receives and re- 

 tains the Dews •, the benign folar Influence is fuffi- 

 cient to put them in Motion, but not to exhale them 



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