34 Vegetable Statkks. 



The planters obferve, that when a mold or 

 fen has once feized any part of the ground, it 

 foon runs over the whole 5 and that the grafs, 

 and other herbs under the hops, are infected 

 with it. 



Probably becaufe the fmall feeds of this 

 quick growing mold, which foon come to 

 maturity, are blown over the whole ground: 

 Which fpreading of the feed may be the 

 reafon why fome grounds are infected with 

 fen for feveral years fucceflively ; viz. from 

 the feeds of the laft year's fen: Might it not 

 then be advifeable to burn the fenny hop- 

 vines as foon as the hops are picked, in hopes 

 thereby to deftroy fome of the feed of the 

 mold? 



H Mr. Aujlin of Canterbury obferves fen 

 < c to be more fatal to thofe grounds that 

 tc are low and fheltered, than to the high 

 " and open grounds; to thofe that are fhelv- 

 " ing to the North, than to the (helving 

 " to the South - y to the middle of grounds, 

 " than to the outfides; to the dry and 

 <c gentle grounds, than to the moift and ftiff 

 " grounds. This was very apparent through- 

 <f out the Plantations, where the land had 

 <c the fame workmanfhip and help beftowed 



< c upon 



