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Sect. XVIII. i. i 



LEAVES AND WOOD 



5^5 



water in 



moift foils lefTcns the cavities, which are occupied by 



d as roots or their branches are in general conical, they become 



pufhed upward 



and fuch 



often feen to happen 



5 are loofe rife quite out of the ground 

 the roots of the ft raw berries, when ; 



frofty night has occurred foon after th 

 fliorht froft the'larger pebbl 



bein 



& 



fplanted 



After 



of a gravel walk are feen below 



th 



furface, as if they had funk downwards during the night ; wh 



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this is owing to a fimilar caufe, the expanfi 



of the moift foil or 



crravel an inch deep; but as the froft had not penetrated fo low as t< 

 fwell the ground beneath the large pebbles, thefe had not been lift 

 ed up like the fmaller ones, or the wet fand. 

 Secondly, both to increafe the quantity of 



nd th 



and to increafe the fize or vigour, as well perhaps as the number, of 

 leaf-buds on the ftem, a greater fupply of water than ufual, where it 

 can be done, would be advantageous ; as is done to the rice-grounds 



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warm countries, in the early part of its growth, and as in flooding 



meadows occafionally in the vernal months. Thus very 



our own 



moift feafons are well known to forward the luxuriant growth of the 

 herbage, and ftems, in the cultivation of wheat, and to render the 



ears later, and lefs prolific. 



Where plants are fown for the purpofe of confuming the firft fo- 

 lia o-c, as grafles or faint-foin, the feed ftiould be fowai thicker, than 

 where the plant is grown for the purpofe of producing feeds, as in 

 wheat or peas ; becaufe the quantity of the firft foliage will be gre 

 in refped to number ; and the central parts of the tufTocks, as is 

 ten feen in wheat and peas, when fown too thick, will rife twc 



of. 



three inches higher in their conteft for light and air, like the trees of 



thick planted woods ; 

 well as a more copious 



d will hence produce a forwarder paft 



To which ftiould be added, that the plants with fucculent ftems 



faint-foin, lucern, red clover. 



fo much injury from the 



trampling of heavy cattle, that they ftiould be mowed, and 



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cows 



