232 Of Change of § peci-e s. Chap. XIV. 



with the Plough, which is almoft the fame with the 

 Hoe-plough, the Stems are planted about Four Feet 

 afunder, chequer wife; fo that they plow them Four 

 ways. When any of thefe Plants happen to die, new 

 ones are immediately planted in their room, and ex- 

 actly in the Points or Angles where the other have 

 rotted ; elfe, if planted out of thofe Angles, they 

 would ftand in the Way of the Plough : Thefe young 

 Vines, I fay, fo planted in the very Graves, as it were, 

 of their PredeceiTors, grow, thrive, and profper well, 

 the Soil being thus conftantly tilled: And if a Plum- 

 tree, or any other Plant, had fuch Tillage, it might 

 as well fucceed one of its own Species, as thofe Vines 

 do. 



3 Tis obferved, that White-thorns will not profper, 

 fet in the Gaps of a White thorn Hedge : But I have 

 feen the Banks of fuch Gaps dug and thrown down 

 one Summer, and made up again, and White-thorns 

 there replanted the following Winter, with good 

 Succefs. 



But note, That the annual plowing the Vines is 

 more beneficial than the one Summer Tillage of the 

 Banks, the Vines having it repeated to them yearly. 



I have, by Experience and Obfervation, found it to 

 be a Rule, That long Tap-rooted Plants, as Clover 

 and St. Foin, will not fucceed immediately after 

 thofe of their own or any other Species of long Tap- 

 roots, fo well as after horizontal-rooted Plants -, but, 

 on the contrary, horizontal will fucceed thofe Tap- 

 roots as well or better than they will fucceed hori- 

 zontal. 



I confefs, this Obfervation did, for a great while, 

 cheat me into the common Belief, That different 

 Species of Plants feed on different Food; till I was 

 delivered from that Error, by taking Notice, that 

 thofe Tap-roots would thrive exceedingly well after 

 Turneps, which have alfo pretty long Tap-roots, 

 though Turneps never thrive well immediately after 



Clover, 



