Sect. XVI. i. i. 



OF 



SEEDS. 



433 



Native feeds, foreign 

 in thefpring, in the ^ 



kinds ofwhea 



foon after the ground is turned over, and early 

 Economy offowing three kinds of grafs feeds, and 



Kinds of foil 



3. Mix fand or foil with fome feeds 



them in water, fait and water, lime. Steep barley in dunghill 



Wood' ajh 



Sow wet as well as dry. 

 too luxuriant plants. Sow 



clofure. Cain and Abel 



Bury the fruit with the feed. 5. JVaJh the feeds of 

 them early. IX. Queftion concerning general en- 



■mj. 



pro- 



-anj- 

 wed 



IS IS 



our- 

 ipen 

 ipen- 



y-Djus. 

 slants 

 'uji of 

 ood 



feeds, 

 ■d the 



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^fs 



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tof 







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Many of the circumflances above related concerning the produc- 

 ,n and enlargement of fruit are applicable to the production of 



the feeds, which are included in them 



but thofe feeds, which 



tribute moft to the nourifliment of mankind, many of which are th 



progeny of annual or biennial plant 



require other modes of cult 



vation. 



r 



As an introdudion to th 



feaion it may be obferved, how much 



more ingenuity was required in the difcovery of nourifhing mankind 



by th 



fmall feeds 



of the grafles, which 



probably been fince 



much enlarged by perpetual cultivation, than by the lar 



x_* 



of 



The Ifis or Ofiris of Egypt feems to have invented th 



of cultivating wheat, as well as fl 



on the banks of th 



potatoes 



procefs „ ^ ,11 



Nile ; and afterwards Ceres and Triptolemus to have taught the 



former of thefe important difcoveries all over the known world. 



While in later ages the Incas or Motezumas of Peru and Mexico feem 



have deftroyed th 



nnib 



or men-eaters, of that continent. 



and to have difcovered and taught their people to fupport themfel 

 by the cultivation of potatoes. 



1. I. 



To produce fieds early In thefeafo 



Thofe plants, which are required to yield a forward crop, as the peas 

 and beans of our gardens, and thofe which our cold and fliort fummers 

 will not otherwife perfedly ripen, as wheat, (hould be fowed before 

 the commencement of winter, either in natural ground, as in the 



3K 



cult 



