152 ON THE FOLIATION 
fame individuals . And 3d. on trees which 
grow on the fame foil , and in the fame expo- 
fition , as the field that is to be fown. Were 
thefe circumftances, i fay, attended to, per- 
haps we might be able to form more certain 
rules for the ufe of the farmer ; but fince thefe 
rules have been fometimes neglected, our bu- 
finefs will not fucceed fo well ; for who does 
not know that the north wind , /hade , and a 
moift foil hinder the leafing of trees as much 
as a dry fituation on the Hope of a hill inclining 
to the fouth promotes it ? Befides many er- 
rors have crept into thefe obfervations, e. g. 
fome trees between whole leafing there ought 
not to intervene above two or three days, are 
often disjoyned from one another by the in- 
terval of a fortnight; not to mention the order 
of leafing § 3, which trees fcarcely, or rather 
never tranfgrefs, being tyed down to it by 
nature herfelf, but which often does not ap- 
pear in thefe journals x . 
x In the original there follows a fe&ion which i have not 
tranflated. The intent of it is to explain a table giving an 
account of the different days of the foliation of fome trees 
and fhrubs in Sweden, Norway, &c. which i have omitted, 
as thinking it would afford little, or no entertainment to 
the reader. 
