I alfo recommend as fubftitutes of Hemp and Flax, 
of our £«p^///5& growth, •z;ii2:. Perennial Plants. 
Linumjylveftre angufiifolium. J B, 
Limm fylveftn fiorihus c^sruleis. Ger.^ 
Corona fratrum ^ ot the Thiule kind. This Plant is 
generally a Yard tall ; its Fibres are exceeding toogh 
and ftrong, beyond any I ever tryed ; it puts forth 
many of thefe tall and very thick Stalks yearly ; it 
naturally gro ws to this bulk in moft Barren Soils, as the 
dry WoolJs and high Failures in Torkjhire and Lm- 
c^lnjhire. 
It may be objefted, that as annual Plants require 
more Labour and a fatter Soil, fo they recompenfe k 
in largenefs of Growth and Fruit ; and alfo, that Plants 
of lafting Roots, are moftly harfh and bitter, and not 
palatable for Man or Beaft : I anfw^er, that the Compen* 
^///w of Labour in Husbandry, is all in all; and that 
therefore the durable Plants will turn to better Ac* 
count, I refer to the wonderful Examples of fuch as 
have already been made ufe of, as St* Foin (a known 
Plant of the natural growth of &c; 
And if fo, 'tis to be hoped , that Diligence will 
furniih us with agreeable Plants, if theft, which I have 
now named, are not ftch , which yet I affirm to be all 
of them palatable. 
Further, it is probable, that by feme Tillage, even 
harfti Plants siay be improved and brought to kinder 
Food: the fame ^^^rjgjia which we ear, grows wild in 
the Marflies of Lincolnjhure, very fair, and not to be 
diftinguilhed by the Eye from that lo eor Gardens, 
but is intolerable bitter ; which Garden Culture alone 
has civilized, and made pleaiant to the Tattc 
For this purpofe, the Liming of Pafture Ground, is 
notfo much toTertil 2:eand make rhe Grafs grow ranker 
(for iti$ naturally too rank in the Northern Mountainous 
C^qqz wet* 
