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unfair of thofe who pretend to determine upon 

 the merit of this Hufbandry, that they take 

 no notice of his extenfive and fuccefsful prac- 

 tice of it for many years ; but refer their 

 readers to a few fmall trials, improperly con- 

 du&ed, and which prove nothing, but that 

 the experimenters were unacquainted with the 

 principles and the approved practice of this 

 culture. 



The fame ignorance or inattention is obfer- 

 vable, with regard to the experiments in this 

 Hufbandry made abroad by M. Duhamel and 

 many of his ingenious correfpondents j who, 

 purfuing Mr. Tull's directions, found them 

 fucceed in a manner that much fuprized them; 

 and their experiments have long fince been 

 publifhed in Englifh. They lucceeded re- 

 markably in the culture of wheat, and other 

 cornj alfo of lucerne, fainfoin, turnips, car- 

 rots, and other garden-plants, lettuce, afpara- 

 gus, &c. of hemp likewife ; and remarkably 

 in the culture of vines, much beyond what 

 they attained to from the method of culture 

 for vines common in that country. Is it not 

 therefore very extraordinary, that fome in- 

 conclufive trial upon a few perches of wheat 

 fhould be referred to as of confequence, and 

 not the leaft notice taken of thofe extenfive 

 ones, upon fuch a variety of plants, whereof 

 fome only are here mentioned, and in general 

 fucceeded, as the experimenters declare, much 



beyond 



