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But during the day Mr, Coke ordered the 

 thrafhers to throw a great many flieaves of 

 wheat ffom rhe iriow ; and, to my very great 

 furprife, I do not recoile6l feeing wheat with 

 heads fo fine and of fo regular a fize. I then 

 made it my bufinefs to examine the ftuhbUs : 

 and in the ftubbie where apparently only one 

 grain had fallen, I did not find that fuperior 

 ftrength I had expedled. During the winter 

 I have made fev-eral obfervations in fields of 

 wheat-, and ! frequently noticed that, where 

 a fingle grain had fallen, the plant appeared 

 weak and ftarv-ed ; but where three -or four had 

 fallen, the blades were fine, broad, healthy 

 and vigorous. In like manner, clumps of 

 trees in plantations get up much quicker than 

 a fingle one : and I have ofcen oblerved, that 

 when plantations, after they have grown to 

 from fifteen to twenty feet high, have been 

 thinned, and the under branches lopped off, 

 they make but flow progrefs after. Therefore 

 it appears very plainly, that trees growing in 

 clumps flielter one another: and I am of opi- 

 nion that wheat-plants fimilarly fituated do 

 tlie fame. But I would not wiih the reader 



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