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as 12 is to 1, of rather as 15 to.1, becaufe that there isa continuabDe- © 
mand of Nourifhment by the Head, during all the Time. that Nature 
_ is preparing its new Fibrous Roots, to ftrike frefh again into the Earth. 
WE may obferve from this Experiment of the Cabbage, ‘that as 
their Growth is naturally very quick and great, and Roots {mall in 
Proportion to their Heads, (whereby their Nourifhment is imbibed with 
great Velocity) the Soil wherein they are planted f{hould ‘be very rich 
and full ‘of Moifture ; for otherwife their very great imbibing Force 
would foon exhauft it dry, and thereby perifh. And ‘tis always feen, 
that where-ever Cabbages, -Colliflowers, Savoys, @’c. are planted, 
they impoverifh the Ground very much, altho’ perhaps ‘twas in good 
Heart atotheir firft planting ; and the like of all thas Plants in abe oh 
to their more or lefs Quantity: of Roots. an ta 
WE fhould alfo obferve’ the various 6: Diftiibutions of the Roots of 
Plants 3 for thereby we ate in part directed how to adapt them to “their 
proper Soils : “Thus Nature informs us, that’ the Flax, Arbutus, Enghi/p 
Oak, and many other Plants that naturally produce Downright or Tap- 
Roots, delight in very deep-holding Lands ; and others, as the Ath, 
Elm, Lime, @c. whofe Roots run nearly horizontally within two and 
three Feet Depth, love Land ¢ chac is rick and | thallow. 
_ THE different ‘Velocities of im bing ‘and Gaia: Nourifhment 
Being ‘accounted for, “tis very “ealy t to conceive the Reafons of pruning 
the Heads of Fruit-Trees at the Time of Planting, and that the more 
they are reduc’, the better it is ‘for them. 
AND, as it has been obferv'd before that Plants perfpire whilft they 
are ftriking Root, ‘tis therefore that Moifture is abfolutely neceflary-ac... 
Planting, to fuppore them until they are enabled to attract Nourifhment 
shertifelves which Moifture ought to be no more than is agreeable to 
the Nature = the Plants ; for I haye feen many Trees kill’d (and par- 
3 ticularly Ever-greens) by: having too great a Quantity: of Moifture : 3 there- 
es mage 
“ay 
re ted and cold Lands beware of - ae satan 
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