3 4 Vegetable Stanch. 
The planters obferve, that when a mold or 
fen has once feized any part of the ground, 
it foon runs over the whole; 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 infe&ed with 
fen for feveral years fucceilively ; viz,, from 
the feeds of the laft year’s fen : Might it not 
then be advifeable to burn the fenny hop- 
vines as foon as the hops are picked, in hopes 
thereby to deftroy fome of the feed of the 
mold ? 
“ Mr. Auftin of Canterbury obferves fen 
“ to be more fatal to thofe grounds that 
“ are low and fheltered, than to the high 
cc and open grounds; to thofe that are fhel- 
“ ving to the North, than to the Ihelving 
< c to the South; to the middle of grounds, 
“ than to the outfides ; to the dry and 
<c gentle grounds, than to the moiftand ftiff 
« grounds. This was very apparent through- 
« out the Plantations, where the land had 
“ the fame workmanfhip and help beftow- 
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