THE SCOTS GARDENER 



summer following is to destroy the weeds, and that 

 may be done by turf, plough or hawing. 



The husbandmen's slit-folding is equivalent to 

 gard'ners covering the surface, especially of dry 

 and barren ground, with litter &c. The manure of 

 cattle washes evenly into ground, and should be 

 turned down by the summer and autumnal fallow- 

 ing, lest its substance exhaust by the sun and air, 

 except that for grass, then only harrowed with a 

 bush of thorns ; instead whereof gard'ners should 

 top their coverings of litter with a little earth or 

 sand, and at autumne delve all down together. 



Husbandmen's watering is, by running plough- 

 furrowes and trenches where needful, alongst or 

 cross their land, so as the water may gently sweem 

 over the whole. This is to be done in the winter on 

 dry and barren grounds, which leaves a sulphureous 

 deposit behind it, and strongly improves either for 

 grass or corn ; but what this husbandry ought as 

 well to be practised on wet grounds, is evident, be- 

 cause the running of this carryes away the sour 

 quality of the other. I shall speak of gard'ners 

 watering more particularly. 



Burning land is, to pare its surface with the turf- 

 plough, and lay the same in heaps to burn, and so 



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