New Principles of Gardening. 
Sands upon mountainous rocky Places producing {mall moffy 
and yellow Grafs, are generally barren. 
Black moorih Sands produce four unwholfome Grafs; and 
white or yellow Sand, a fhort blewilh moffy Graf. 
Gravelly, gritty, loofe Sand, is alfo barren, caufed by 
Cold, the Gravel wanting good Mold, to warm that as STOWS 
in it. 
Barren Lands always require much more. Manure than 
better. Lands, notwithftanding ’tis confumed in half the 
Time; for in Clay Lands the Toughne/s of the Clay is fo 
great, the Soil cannot incorporate with it. 
Great Rains is the Caufe of Barennefs in hollow hungry 
Sands, as well as great Droughts: For the Sun exhales the 
Moifinve and Heart of the Soil, which the Rains produce; 
fo that “ght fandy Lands are deprived of their vital Juices 
beth. Ways. 2 
Land may be fit for Fruit-Trees, Corn, c. but not for 
Timber-Trees ; fuch whofe Depth is one Foot, or fifteen Inches, 
and its Bottom a cold wet Gravel, which is very difagreeable 
to their Roots. 
Note, when I {peak of Timber-Trees, 1 mean Oak, Afb, 
fb 
and Beach, and not Abeals, Elms, Sc. of the Aguatick 
Tribe 22% 3 
The like Depth of Ground is oftentimes found lying on an 
undivided Rock, or Quarry of Stone, Marble, 6c. of a large 
Extent; alfo improper for Timber-Trees ; and although the 
Afb isa ‘Tree that naturally runs fhallow, yet “tis generally 
a Pollard, and decays before it comes to any Perfection for 
Timber. 
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