Chap. XIII. O/Luserne. 20 r 



Hoeing always gives it, a very little Heat above, and 

 the Moifture alone (which is never wanting to the 

 deep Tap-root) fuffice, and that Plenty of Food 

 enables it the better to endure the Extremes of either 

 Heat or Cold. 



We need not much apprehend the Danger of £ng- 

 1'ijh Winters ; for Luferne will endure thofe which 

 are more rigorous. In the Principality of Neufckdtel 

 the Winters are fo fevere, as to kill all the Rofemary 

 Jeft abroad; yet Luferne furvives them there : This 

 proves it more hardy than Rofemary, which is plant- 

 ed for Hedges in England-, and here is fcarce twice in 

 an Age a Froft able to kill it. 



I have one fingle Luferne-plant in a poor Arable 

 Field, that has itood the Teft of Two-and-twenty 

 Winters, befides the Feeding of Sheep at all Seafons, 

 and yet remains as flrong as ever. What Quantity 

 of Hay this Plant yearly produces, cannot be known, 

 becaufe at thofe times that Cattle are kept from it, 

 the Hares conftantly crop it, being fweeter than any 

 Other Grafs. 



But this happens to be fortunately fituate, where 

 ? tis not altogether deftitute of the Benefit of Hoeing. 

 'Tis in an Angle, where, every time the Field is till'd, 

 the Plough goes over it in turning from the Furrows 

 of one Land and one Flead-land ; but it is after the 

 Plough is lifted out of the Ground, and turned up 

 on one fide, fo that the Share only breaks the Turf 

 very fmall all around it, withoutplowing up the Plant: 

 Yet it has efcaped it fo narrowly, that the Fin of the 

 Plough-fhare has fplit it into Four Parts ; Three of 

 which remain, and grow never' the worfe, but the 

 Fourth is torn off, and the Wound healed up. 



By the extreme hard Winter that happened about 

 the Year 1708, or 1709, fome of the Luferne in 

 Languedoc was killed: Yet this was no Argument of 

 its Tendernefs, but rather the contrary; becaufe then 

 all the Olive-trees and Walnut-trees were there killed, 



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