3 ^4 The Conchfion. 



whofe roots have made much fhorter fhoots. 

 Herein therefore confifts the great care 

 and skill of the Husbandman, to adapt 

 his different forts of Husbandry to the 

 very different foils , feafons and kinds of 

 grain 5 that the feveral forts of earth, from 

 the very ftiff and ftrong ground, to the 

 loofe light earths, may be wrought to the 

 bed temper they are capable of, for the 

 kindly (hooting and nourishing of the roots. 

 And probably the Husbandman might get 

 many ufeful hints, to dired him in adapt- 

 ing the feveral kinds of manure, and dif- 

 ferent forts and feafons of culture to his 

 different foils and grains : If in the feve- 

 ral ftages and growth of his Corn, he would 

 not only make his obfervations, on what 

 appears above ground, but would alfo fre- 

 quently dig up, compare and examin the 

 roots of plants of each fort, efpeciaily of 

 thofe which grew in different foils, and were 

 any how cultivated in a different manner 

 from each other j this would inform them 

 alfo, whether they fowed their Corn too 

 thick or too thin, by comparing the branch- 

 ings and extent of each root, with the fpace 



of ground allotted it to grow in, 



And 



