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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93046	The history of the propagation & improvement of vegetables by the concurrence of art and nature: shewing the several ways for the propagation of plants usually cultivated in England, as they are increased by seed, off-sets, suckers, truncheons, cuttings, slips, laying, circumposition, the several ways of graftings and inoculations; as likewise the methods for improvement and best culture of field, orchard, and garden plants, the means used for remedy of annoyances incident to them; with the effect of nature, and her manner of working upon the several endeavors and operations of the artist. Written according to observations made from experience and practice: / by Robert Sharrock, Fellow of New Colledge.	Sharrock, Robert, 1630-1684.	1659 (1659)	Wing S3010; Thomason E1731_2; ESTC R200918	91,082	174

or floating as an help to boggy rushy quagmiry Land I suppose no benefit but hurt would arise thereby to such Lands if these dreining Trenches did not open the passages of the obstructed Springs original causes of the Bog or Rushiness as well as let out the Water newly introduced by the floating The time of the operation for this improvement must be when the Grass is all off the ground for else the soil will stain it that comes along with the Flood Often watering is good but to keep it long in a place breeds the Rush By this very Husbandry Mr. Blith brings precedents of improvement of Land from Eighteen pence to Thirty shillings an Acre and Mr. Plat from One shilling to Five pounds Another remedy for dry and light ground such as abound in Sand and Gravel is Marl an Earth most commonly slippery or greasie to the touch sometimes blew sometimes grey otherwhiles yellow now and then red always fryable so that it will slack after a shower and not grow afterwards hard or crusty as Clay doth but easily resolves to a dust or powder It saddens Land naturally and so will turn Rye Land as to make it fit for Wheat Barly and Pease and therefore must not be used twice or thrice together without some other more rarifying compost to intervene such as ordinary Dung is if you lay it down from Tillage 't is requisite that all Marled Land be first well dunged Chalk also I have seen used with very good success in Hampshire upon the Downs there which are of so dry a nature that it is grown Proverbial there that their Ground requires a shower every day in the Week and on the Sunday two and Mr. Blith affirms that in Hertfordshire by Chalk the Improvement is made on Barren Gravelly and Flinty Lands Mr. Blith reports thus of Lime that it is a suitabler Soyl for light sandy Earth then for a warm Gravel 't is improper for a wet and cold Gravel but for a cold hungry Clay worst of all for says he Lime being once slacked and melted is of a cold nature and will sadden exceedingly contrary to its nature in the Stone for it turns light Land into such a capacity that it will bear exceeding good Lammas Wheat or mixed Corn About twelve or fourteen Quarter of Lime serves an Acre it may as well be over as under-limed after Liming till not long but return to Pasture Num. 4. Remedies for accidental annoyances and hindrances of Improvement particularly the ways to destroy Fern Heath Ant-hills Moss Rushes Rest-harrow Broom or any such Weed or Shrubs that infect the ground Whether liming of Corn prevents blashing the effects of that and Brine in Improvement Concerning Moles and the ways to destroy them or drown them a way of Antipathy as to this effect in Animals and Vegetables to the Bodies of their own kinde when they are in the way of corruption Mr. Blith's way of preserving Corn from Crows Rooks c. When any Land runs to Fearn Heath or Ant-hills Mossiness Rushes coldness or any other Weeds or Shrubs as Goss Broom Furz c. The most proper and improving remedy is to plow it three or four year and then lay it down in good heart In which operation care must be had to plow up the Weeds clean and burn the Roots of them in heaps which warms the ground and to give it convenient dunging every year for so the greater shall the improvement be This Land must be cast into Furlongs that the Furrows may convey the Water one to another into a general Trench that it lie not upon the Land If the Land be cold and moist lay it the higher on ridges if hot and dry sandy or the like let it lic flat that it may better retain the Rain water Be sure you Plow up the Rushes Brakes or other annoying Weeds and for fail let some body with a Spade follow the Plough to root up such as are left after the Culter and Plow-share Harrow this new broken ground with weighty sharp and long tined Harrows such as 't is a Teems work to draw that uneven places may be torn up and good store of mould raised Cover your Seed with two or three sorts of Harrows each Harrow having tines thicker then the other some put weights upon the Harrows in the first and a Thorn under them in the last operation After four years Tilth lay down your Land and that upon a Crop of Wheat or Rye not on a Summer Corn for so the Soard will come the sooner especially if the Crop be sowed thin and as early as may be If you will double or treble the Improvement the Husbandry of sowing Clover-grass spoken of in the first Chapter will here come in most properly This last Plowing regard that the Ground be laid down smooth yet on ridges if the Land be cold and unless the Land be of exceeding strength fail not to manure it by dung or otherwise this last season of plowing Mr. Blith reports and Mr. Hartlip likewise That the natural helps to preserve Corn from blasting is the steeping of it in thick fat water or Lime water Urine or Brine or the mixing of Lime or Ashes with Corn well wet and moist that so it may cloath it self with the finest of the Lime or Ashes c. so as it may fall cloathed all over to the Earth and so be covered therewith But I believe he was mistaken in the applying of the Medicine to the prevention of the right and proper disease I have heard such who practiced these Medicines affirm that they have generally and with reasonable good success used those remedies to prevent smootiness but the very last year it was observed that where those means were used the blast did as much harm as on the adjoyning Lands where there were no such Applications made to the Seed And blasting being the perishing of the tender Kernel by reason of a Wind which from the effect is sometimes called a red Wind that too sharply and it may be with some Venome breathes on it at its first beginning I see no reason that such infusions or applications should be any defence for it comes from an outward violence and therefore it is most usually seen that not half a Tree onely but half a bough shall be blasted while the other half of the same that grows by one and the same nourishment remains free sound and well coloured There is a procedure mentioned among Mr. Speeds notes for Liming Corn that carries a good probability of advantage with it First The Grain was steeped in strong Brine of Salt that would bear an Egge twenty four hours and then being laid S. S. S. with Lime that is there was laid a layer of Corn first and then a layer of Lime and then again a layer of Corn c. the Lime cleaved to the Wheat and was sowed on Ground not worth Two shillings an Acre the effect was That it bare as