'24 SITUATIONS AND SOILS 



At the fame time, it would be very convenient to 

 have a rill pafling through the ground, or to have 

 a fmall pond, fed by a fpring or by a pipe, for 

 the purpofes of watering. I 



If the depth of the foil be from one to two feet, 

 that is, the fhallowefl parts a foot, and the deep- 

 eft parts too feet, with various intermediate depths, 

 it will be fufficient. If broken out from pafture, 

 the ground will require to be trenched, and me- 

 liorated by a crop or two of potatoes, turnips, or 

 the like. For thefe crops it mould be well manur- 

 ed, in order to prepare it for receiving the feeds 

 to be fown in it ; or even to fit it for the receiv- 

 ing of feedlings for the purpofe of nurfmg. 



We recollect of two inftances of nurferies being 

 laid down on old paftures, in which multitudes of 

 the wire-worm, flugs, and other vermin, had long 

 exifted. In both cafes, it was thought fufficient 

 to fubtrench the ground, preparatory to planting 

 out feedlings. But it fo happened, that the plants 

 became a prey to thefe vermin the feafon fol- 

 lowing ; their (terns being found peeled entirely 

 round, about an inch under the furface of the 

 ground, and many of the plants cut quite afun- 

 der. That a like misfortune may be avoided, it 

 is proper, even for the fake of tranfplanted feed- 

 lings, were fowing of feeds out of the queflion, 

 to take a crop or two of grain, or efculents, as 

 above advifed. 



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