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the more readily make vigorous (hoots. And 

 the greater proportion the furface of the roots 

 bears to the furface of the plants above- 

 ground, fo much the greater quantity of 

 nourifhment they will afford; and confe- 

 quently the plants will be the more vigorous, 

 and better able to weather it out, againft 

 unkindly feafons, than thofe plants whofe 

 roots have made much (horter fhoots. Herein 

 therefore confifts the great care and skill of 

 the Husbandman, to adapt his different forts 

 of Husbandry to the very different foils, feafons 

 and kinds of grain ; that the feveral forts of 

 earth, from the very ftiff and ftrong ground, 

 to the loofe light earths, may be wrought to 

 the beft temper they are capable of, for the 

 kindly {hooting and nourishing of the roots. 

 And probably the Husbandman might get 

 many ufeful hints, to dired: him in adapt- 

 ing the feveral kinds of manure, and dif- 

 ferent forts and feafons of culture, to his 

 different foils and grains, if in the feveral 

 ftages and growth of his Corn he would 

 not only make his obfervations on what 

 appears above-ground, but would alfo fre- 

 quently dig up, compare and examine the 

 roots of plants of each fort, efpecially of 

 thofe which grew in different foilsj and were 



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