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points befides the oeconomical part. When 

 a gentleman tries the cuUure of new vege- 

 table, and linds from a few experiments^ 

 that the advantage is not fuch as he at firft 

 imagined, he is too apt to abandon the 

 defign, and even to declare peremptorily, 

 That it ivill 7iever do : It cannot anfiver ; 

 and fo forth. But it is only from nume- 

 rous and repeated trials that we can ever 

 venture fuch affertions. Some vegetables 

 ■will yield a beneficial produce with a very 

 flight and incomplete culture, others require 

 a much greater attention, and fome cannot 

 thrive without a very garden-diligence. 

 Where would be the farmer's profit, if he 

 was to bellow no more cultivation on his 

 wheat than on his oats ; to neglect his 

 turnips as much as his wheat, and his 

 hops as much as his turnips ? From which 

 we plainly fee, that the fame attention is 

 not requifite for all. 



Now, in forming trialsof new vegetables, 

 we certainly may blunder into the omiffion 

 of not giving to each plant the culture 

 requifite, fmce it is nothing but long and 

 vaft experience that has taught us, among 

 plants commonly cultivated, to treat each 

 according to its nature: and, in experi- 

 ments 



