34 Vegetable Staticks. 



The planters obferve, that when a mold or 

 fen has once feized any part of the ground , 

 it foon runs over the whole 5 and that the 

 grafs and other herbs, under the hops, are 

 infe&ed with it. 



Probably becaufe the fmall feeds of this 

 quick growing mold, which foon come to 

 maturity, are blown over the whole ground : 

 Which fpreading of the feed may be the 

 reafon why fome grounds are infe&ed with 

 fen for feveral years fucceffively; viz, from 

 the feeds of the laft years fen : Might it not 

 then be advifeable to burn the fenny hop- 

 vines as foon as the hops are picked, in hopes 

 thereby to deftroy fome of the feed of the 

 mold * 



" Mr. Anftin of Canterbury obfcrves fen 

 " to be more fatal to thofe grounds that 

 " are low and fheitered, than to the high 

 u and open grounds 5 to thofe that are fhel- 

 " ving to the North, than to the fhelving 

 u to the South 5 to the middle of grounds, 

 " than to the outfides,- to the dry and 

 " gentle grounds, than to the moifl: and ftiff 

 u grounds. This was very apparent through^ 

 " out the Plantations, where the land had 

 £ the fame workmanfhip, and help beftow- 



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