wet Paftures) but alfo to make it palatable to Cattle, 
to make it eat fihort and tender, and fweet, which it 
does by a kind of blanching it. Caft Lime over the 
one half of a Pafture, the Cattle will not bite any 
where elfe willingly , and will eat here to the 
bare Ground, much neglefting the other half. 
I did uft, when I lived in the North, to Lime my 
Afparagus and Lettice Beds, and this did fo far melio* 
rate them, that they far exceeded in tendernefs and 
pleafant Tafte covering the Afparagus in Winter with 
clean wheat Straw, inftead of nafty Litter, and Sow- 
ing the Bed thick with the Powder of burnt Oyfter- 
ftells. 
However , without difpute , admit the choice we 
have made to be but tolerable , yet they will be of 
better growth, hardier, and lefs fubjed to Calami- 
ties, then any Grain or Pulfe that are more ftrangers to 
our Soyle. 
To Conclude, I have long had a fancy, that above 
all our Englijh Plants to propagate , the White Briony 
would fucceed beft both for Hay and Corn, as giving 
the moft Grafs, if we would that way ufe it, and al- 
fo yielding a Root of a prodigious bignefs ; which fea- 
fonably taken up, is little elfe but a Mafs of fine 
Flower. 
If it be objedied, that it is a Churlifti Purge, and 
rot fit Food for Man or any other Animal that we 
we keep; I anfwer that fuch, and very much worfe 
is the Caffava Root of which the hJia^i Bread is made, 
and which by Exfuccation and Baking alone, proves 
innocent and wholefome nay even long drying alone 
altogether, corrects its purgative faculty ; for I have 
frequently given (as a Diredion in the Dropfie and 
Spleen) Two Drams of the Powder daily to infirm 
People, 
