IV. CULTIVATION IN GENERAL. 



will arise a fermentation and dews. The ground will have 

 moisture in it, in spite of all drought, which the hard, un- 

 moved ground, will not. But always dig or plough in 

 dry weather, and, the drier the weather, the deeper you 

 ought to go, and the finer you ought to break the earth. 

 When plants are covered by lights, or are in a house, or are 

 covered with cloths in the night time, they may need 

 watering, and in such cases, must have it given them 

 by hand. 



115. I shall conclude this Chapter with observing, on 

 what I deem a vulgar error, and an error, too, which 

 sometimes produces inconvenience. It is believed, and 

 stated, that the ground grows tired, in time, of the same 

 sort of plant ; and that, if it be, year after year, cropped 

 with the same sort of plant, the produce will be small, 

 and the quality inferior to what it was at first. Mr. TULL 

 has most satisfactorily proved, both by fact and argu- 

 ment, that this is not true. And I will add this fact, that 

 Mr. MISSING, a barrister, living in the parish of Titchfield, 

 in Hampshire, and who was a most excellent and kind 

 neighbour of mine, has a border' under a south wall, on 

 which he, and his father before him, have grown early 

 peas, every year, for more, now, than fifty years ; and if, at 

 any time, they had been finer than they were every one 

 year of the four or five years that I saw them, they must 

 have been something very extraordinary ; for, in those 

 years, they were as fine, and as full bearing, as any that 

 I ever saw in England. 



] 16. Before I entirely quitted the subject of Cultivation, 

 there would be a few remarks to be made upon the 





