304 Note, on Liming Land. 



nent some years ago, as particularly noticed in the London 

 Philosophical Transactions, and in the writings of Mr. Henry, 

 Dr. Darwin and others. 



We may remark that while the learned theorists in England 

 and elsewhere, were exulting over the grand discovery ,where- 

 by the farmer might proceed with certainty in his choice of the 

 lime most proper for manure, as if none but the mild or calca- 

 rious kind, would henceforth be used for that purpose. In the 

 mean time, we find the great mass of practical farmers, whose 

 practice is generally the result of long experience and obser- 

 vation, who read very little, many of whom seldom or never 

 see a newspaper, far less the London Philosophical Trans- 

 actions ; who never heard of Mr. Henry nor Darwin's Phy- 

 tologia ; who are entirely ignorant of the grand discovery of 

 the calcarious and magnesian limes, still giving the prefer- 

 ance to the hot or magnesian lime, and paying a higher price 

 for it, even where the mild kind is equally within their reach, 

 notwithstanding they know as well as Mr. Tennent, that the 

 spots where the heaps of it had lain will remain barren for 

 at least two years to come ; they being at the same time 

 sensible that with a judicious rotation it will produce them 

 improved crops for a number of years, whereas the beneficial 

 effects of the mild lime will be all gone in two years. 



J. L. 



