So 



DRAINING 



Sect. XI. 3. 4^ 



a fcum of white froth arlfes owing to the air fct at liberty by putre- 

 feaion ; which is fuppofed by fome.to injure the ^rafs, whereas it is a 

 feqnence rather than a caufe of injury, and (hews, that the water 



d (hould either be immediately drawn off, 



but the former ihould probably be 



ftasnated 



or fupplied by a running flream 



preferred : if the ftems of o-rafs are fo tall as to rife above th 



probable, that their death and putrefadion do not fo foon 



occur. 



Secondly. It is obferved by gardeners, that in dry feafons, if you 

 begin to water any kinds of plants, you muft continue to repeat it ; 



otherwife th 



they 



fooner injured by dry weath 



thofe 



which have not been watered. This fad alfo I think I have obferved, 

 and it may depend on the circumftance of the roots of annual veo-e- 

 tables fliooting themfelves lower down in dry feafons in fearch^of 



moifl: 



but if this be given them in the commencemen 



f th 



' — " ^^ 5»»v.ii wii^m III nic cuiumencement of their 



growth, they then flioot their roots more horizontally, and are after- 



fooner deftroyed by the fubfequent dry 



wards in confeq 

 th 



Thirdly. Much cold water given fuddenly to pi 

 early perilling with heat and drynefs 



wea- 



h 



I believe fom 



^ 



jureor deftroy them, as I faw occur this year, 1798, in June to feme 



flooded for one night wi- 

 day, which was probably 



of garden beans; which after beins 



thered, and in part died, on the folio 



fed, not by the excefs of water, as plants of this genus would feem 



an experiment of Lord Kaimes, wh 

 that he planted a pea on fome 



bear much moift 



from 



fays in the Gentleman Farmi 



wool fpread on water in a phial, and that it fprung up, and fh 



roots through the cotton-wool into th 



pods full of ripe feeds 



and produced 



The death of thefc beans was more probably 



occafioned by the torpor of the fyflem induced by cold, as occurs to 

 thofe who have injudicioufly drank much cold water, or plunged into 

 a cold bath, when they have been previoufly much weakened by the 



unneceffary 



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