128 On fVild Garlick. 



well rotted dung, on the pea fallow. About the middle 

 of October, I harrowed in my wheat ; sowed on it timo- 

 thy seed, and rolled it in. With all the advantage of 

 earlier seeding, the wheat on the potatoe ground is in- 

 ferior to that on the pea fallow ; though both look well.* 

 The garlick is apparently destroyed on the whole field. 

 I could in the winter, have collected many bushels 

 of dead bulbs of garlick ; which had been exposed, by 

 the harrows, after the fall ploughings. In this way I have 

 cleared many a field of the garlick, which infested them 

 at the time. But in three years (often in two) the seed, 

 which had been lying torpid, vegetated ; and produced a 

 new crop of pests. By attacking these with a fall, and 

 an early spring ploughing, I have banished the garlick 

 for many succeeding years. My present flattering ap- 

 pearance may turn out fallacious ; I therefore will post, 

 pone my Te Deiim till I am certain of victory. It seems 

 as \^ garlicJf^ once rooting itself generally in a field, gains 

 an endless possession in the soil. Like a chymical com- 

 pound (which according to a recent discovery, can ne- 

 ver be so decomposed as that ^U its parts will be com- 

 pletely separated) in a greater or less degree, it forever 



* Every expectation I had formed respecting the wheat 

 on the pea fallow, is confirmed. It far exceeds that on the po- 

 tatoe ground. There has been a long drought ; yet the pea 

 fallow wheat is nearly as good, as a crop in a favourable season. 

 I have drilled wheat (hoed) superior to it ; but it is among the 

 best broadcast wheat, I have seen this season. No garlick 

 yet appears in the iield. 



R P 



1 5th June 1810. 



