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of the Year, and the Difference of the Soils. 

 In fandy Grounds they need not ftrive fo 

 much for early Planting, the Lofenefs of 

 the Earth, and the kind natur'd Soil, yield- 

 ing all that it can, eafily and fpeedily, and 

 Sand retaining the Heat, makes the Plants 

 grow fafter. But in ftiff Soils, if the Crops 

 be not early pitched, fo that during the 

 Seafon of Rains it have got confiderable 

 Roots, and fhot them fom.e depth, if early 

 Droughts coine, it fo binds the Land, that 

 the Roots never fpread or fhoot deeper, or 

 further than the Hill that they are planted 

 in : For they plant them as we do Cabbages^ 

 railing Hills to fet every Plant in, about the 

 bignefs of a common Mole^hill : obferving 

 this on the Plantation where I lived, that 

 it was ftiff Ground, I advifed them to Plant 

 their Crops as early as pofTible; and in or- 

 der thereunto, I tried feveral ways to fur- 

 ther the Plants ^ but not to trouble you with 

 the feveral Experiments that I made, in re- 

 ference thereto : What I found moft advan- 

 tageous was, by taking an infufion of Horfe- 

 dung, and putting thereon Soot, and then 

 my Seeds ^ this 1 kept Forty eight Hours in 

 an ordinary digeftive heat, I had two Beds 

 left me to Sow, in the midft of thofe the 

 People fowM, and the quantity of Seed 

 that they generally allotted to the lame quan- 

 tity of Ground ^ when I fow'd, I mix'd Alhes 

 with the Seed, having decanted the Liquor, 

 that the Seed might fow the evenner : The 

 effect was, that my Plants came up much 

 fooner, grew fwifter, and I bad five Plants 

 for one more thai), any of the other Beds 



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