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i be, year after year, cropped with the same sort of 

 |j plant, the produce will be small, and the quality 

 j inferior to what it was at first. Mr. Tull has 

 I most satisfactorily proved, both by fact and argu- 

 ment, that this is not true. And I will add this 

 i fact, that Mr. Missing, a Barrister, living in the 

 ! Parish of Titchfield, in Hampshire, in England, 

 I and who was a most excellent and kind neighbour 

 j of mine, has a border under a south wall, on which 

 I he and his father before him, have grown early 

 I peas, every year, for more than forty years ; and, 

 i if, at any time, they had been finer than they were 

 every one year of the four or five years that 1 saw 

 them, they must have been something very extra- 

 \ ordinary ; for, in those years (the last four or five 

 of the more than forty) they were as fine, and as 

 i| full bearing, as any that I ever saw in England, 

 r 189. Before I entirely quitted the subject of 

 j Cultivation, there would be a few remarks to be 

 made upon the means of preventing the depreda- 

 tions of vermin, some of which make their attacks 

 I on the seed, others on the roots, others on the stem., 

 I others on the leaves and blossoms, and others on 

 the fruit ; but, as I shall have to be very particular 

 on this subject in speaking of fruits, I defer it till 

 ' I come to the Chapter on Fruits. 

 I 190. Having now treated of the Situation, Soil, 

 Fencing, and Laying out of Gardens ; on the mak- 

 ing and managing of Hot-Beds and Green-Houses ; 

 and having given some directions as to Propagation 

 and Cultivation in general ; I next proceed to give 

 Alphabetical Lists of the several sorts of plants, 

 and to speak of the proper treatment for each, 

 under the three heads, Vegetables and Herbs; 

 Fruits ; and Flowers. 



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