The inrichment of the weald of Kent. Or, a direction to the husband-man, : for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and may generally serve for all the grounds in England of that nature: As, 1. Shewing the nature of wealdish grounds, comparing it with the soyl of the shires at large. 2. Declaring what the marl is, and the severall sorts thereof, and where it is usually found. 3. The profitable use of marl, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of arable land, as also for the increase of corn and pasture through the kingdome. Painefully gathered for the good of this iland [sic], by a man of great eminence and worth, but revised, inlarged, and corrected with the consent, and by conference with the first author. / By G.M.
- Gervase Markham
- Date:
- 1653
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The inrichment of the weald of Kent. Or, a direction to the husband-man, : for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and may generally serve for all the grounds in England of that nature: As, 1. Shewing the nature of wealdish grounds, comparing it with the soyl of the shires at large. 2. Declaring what the marl is, and the severall sorts thereof, and where it is usually found. 3. The profitable use of marl, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of arable land, as also for the increase of corn and pasture through the kingdome. Painefully gathered for the good of this iland [sic], by a man of great eminence and worth, but revised, inlarged, and corrected with the consent, and by conference with the first author. / By G.M. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![How off to drown tiie earth. mg Whether braC kifo water be wholefome. nd bank into the fea; and having thus drained away the Juft water , you fhall then open your fluces offreft, wa- ter again, a„d dr0wn your ground oyer ^ fecond . and do in all things as you did before, and thus according the plenufulneCs of your frefh water, you fhall drown your ground, or at lead wa/h it over with frefh water twice a week before the beginning of the Spring, and if v », llnWaf Cr HaV r long’or bc but new departed, then you fhall ufe your frefl, water for fome pait of the Spring - \ ^ow ^”,e]m_ay ob)e& unto me here ( and it is a matter alto- „ , ' n § .er unbj:ely)that in fome of thefe places where thefe inun- Helps .f f relh dations and breaches are,it is impoflibleeither to find frefh wa- be want- ter, and to bring frefh water unto them , becaufe all the lprings for many miles about being made naturally brackifh, and the rivers by the infeftion of the fait tides, having loft the greateft part cf their fweet frefimefs; the queftion no w refteth, whether thefe brackifli waters are wholefome for this purpole, I or no ? To this I muft needs anfwer, that they cannot many wife be good for thefe fpoyled grounds, becaufe the earth naturally is of an attra&lve and drawing condition, lucking and gathering unto it felf any thing that is of a fharp, iweet, or fewer taft, and efpecially faltnels, fo that being cove- red With thofe brackifh waters5it will draw from them only their saU(of which it hath too much alreadyJand no part of the keftmds which ftiould qualifie and amend it: therfore if either yourground be thus fituated5or your neceftities thus unfupplyed* it is bettei that you rather forbear this labour of wafhing or drowning your earth ( chough it be the fir ft, the fpeedieft and lurdtcure of all other* than by watering it with infinite and unwholefome waters> rather encreafe- the mifehief than any way delay it; 1 „f .rwiM & £[c.er y°Lu fiave watered your ground (if it bea work ini-' [heoMeivati P,°.ffible t0 be a“f«ned unto )or otherwife neglefted^t being a onstherein. tb,'!S£ ”ot poffibleto be found) you fhall then about the Litter end or March plow up all the ground with a good deep ftitcb. Howto mixe turning up a large furrow * and laying it into lands* raife earths. / them up as much as you caa, and make them round5then look ■ l I - ' ' V / - . of The firft time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30343197_0096.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)