3^4 The Conchfion. 
whofe roots have made much fliorter flioots. 
Herein therefore confifls the great care 
and skill of the Husbandman, to adapt 
his different forts of Husbandry to the 
very different foils , feafons and kinds of 
grain 5 that the feveral forts of earth, from 
the very ftiff and ftrong ground, to the 
loofe light earths, may be wrought to the 
beft temper they are capable of, for the 
kindly fhooting and nourifhing of the roots. 
And probably the Husbandman might get 
many ufeful hint^, to dired him in adapt- 
ing the feveral kinds of manure, and dif- 
ferent, forts and feafons of culture to his 
different foils and grains : If in the feve- 
ral ftages and growth of his Corn, he would 
not only make his obfervations, on what 
appears above ground, but would alfo fre- 
quently dig up, compare and examin the 
roots of plants of each fort, efpecially of 
thofe which grew in different foils, and were 
any how cultivated in a different manner 
from each other j this would inform them 
alfo, whether they fowed their Corn too 
thick or too thin, by comparing the branch- 
ings and extent of each root, with the fpace 
of ground allotted it to grow in. 
And 
