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?5e'too highly efteemed. In fome parts of 

 Hampfiifey Wiltfiire, and Berkfiire, "there 

 are confiderable trad:s of land, fov/n with 

 ^/. Foifiy which now let from twenty to 

 thirty fliillings an acre, which would not 

 be worth above half that rent, in corn, 

 or in any other mode of husbandry. 



The land proper for this grafs is, chalk, 

 gravel, or almoft any mixed mould, pro- 

 vided it be not wet, and that it has a 

 rocky, or hard, bottom, to check the 

 root, at about a foot, or fifteen inches, 

 depth ; otherwife it will fpend itfelf be- 

 low the furface. This therefore may be 

 confidered as a general rule — that St. Foi?z 

 fhould never be planted where there is a 

 great depth of foil. 



The ground cannot be made too clean, 



before it be fown -, fo that it generally 



fucceeds beft after turnips -, and, as well 



^s moft other graffes, is better fown with 



D 4 about 



