3 4 Vegetable Staticks. 
The planters obferve, that when a mold or 
fen has once feized any part of the ground , 
it foon runs over the whole 5 and that the 
grafs and other herbs, under the hops, are 
infefted with it. 
Probably becaufe the fmall feeds of this 
quick growing mold, which foon come to 
maturity, are blown over the whole ground : 
Which fpreading of the feed may be the 
reafon why fome grounds are infeded with 
fen for feveral ycarsfucceffively 5 viz. from 
the feeds of the laft years fen : Might it not 
then be advifeablc to burn the fenny hop- 
vines as foon as the hops are picked, in hopes 
thereby to deftroy Ibme of the feed of the 
mold > 
Mr. Aufiin of Canterbury obferves fen 
to be more fatal to thofe grounds that 
are low and Ihcltered, than to the high 
and open grounds 5 to thofe that are ihel- 
ving to the North, than to the fhelving 
to the South 5 to the middle of grounds, 
than to the outfides,* to the dry and 
gentle grounds, than to the moiftand ftiff 
“ grounds. This was very apparent through- 
out the Plantations, where the land had 
the fame workmanfbip, and help beftow- 
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