354 WEED S. S3. 





WEEDS and V E R M I N. 



I. WEEDS. There are, In this Diftrid:, 

 men who have been fingularly obfervant 

 with refpedt to the nature of weeds ; marking 

 their continuance, and defcribing their me- 

 thods of propagation and rooting with more 

 than botanical accuracy. 



What I principally propofe under the pre- 

 fcnt head is to enumerate the species of 

 WEEDS moil noxious to the arable land of 

 this neighbourhood, and to note what ap- 

 pears to be worthy of notice refpedting the 

 different fpecies. 



It may be proper to fay, that in arranging 

 the fpecies I have s>ukavoured to place them 

 according to their degrees of noxiousness ; 

 whether it arife from their refpedtive qua- 

 lities, or from the quantity which prevails in 

 ihs neighlonrhocd of Picktring. The g!< asses 



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