OF TREES. 
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§• 7® 
If we confider the year 1750, we may re- 
member, that the winter was milder than or- 
dinary, and the fpring very early. Whence 
fome in Upland fowed their lands about the 
end of February ; which they fcarcely ever do 
in other years before April. I am not igno- 
rant, that the lands in fome of the northern 
provinces, efpecially thofe which abound in 
clay, require early fowing, that the ground 
may be broken with lefs trouble, and that 
the firft ftioots of the barley may make their 
way through it before it grows ftiff. But the 
people of Schonen, and others, that dwell near 
the fea, fow late whether the fpring be early 
or not ; and that fometimes to their great lofs, 
for no other reafon but that they received 
this cuftom from their anceftors. The moll 
northern inhabitants of Sweden find it ne- 
ceffary to fow, as foon as the froft breaks 
up; that the fliort fummer may perfectly ripen 
the grain before the winter approaches. For 
as eggs require a fixed time for the exclufion 
of the young, fo the barley does in different 
provinces, to ripen the feed. To prove this 
i will produce fome examples. 
Sowing 
