The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith].

  • Walter Blith
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[1652]
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Credit: The English improver improved; or the survey of husbandry surveyed ... / [Walter Blith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    re oe | truly thefe Lands are bus of'a middle worth. bhavefeen as rich land again inmany pares of Engh.nt, but it is as] believe loamy ground and ofa little faddifhnature , it. will require to be Jaid dry and {cund, and thedand it felfmuft be very found wholfom Land. CHAP. XXXIX Treats of the Plantation of Liquorifb at large, Proceed to another National] bufinefs, in the Plantation whereof wee exceed all Nations,and that is Liquorith » our Englifo: Liquorith as wee Ze, call it, noe yet wrote of by any that I could ever a fee, is far beyond the Spanith {mall dry Liquo- rifh or any other. | : As for the ule of ic moft know, but as to the profit and advan- tage, and the myftery of Planting of ic but fewunderftand, and ‘fewer practife; but that I may be as open and full in the difcove- ry of it as I can in this fhort difcourfe I have to make, | fhall un- der thefe two or three heads formalize what! intend to fpeak. 1. Shall be to difcover the beft Land to bear it. ; 2. The beft way I can find praétifed to plant i. 3. The profits and advantages offic. The beft land The beft Land to raifé your Liquorifh upon is your richeft for Liquorifh. you can get ar make, your warmeft you can find out,the found- eft and dryeft that poffible is to be had, ofavery deep foyl, you muft dig and prepare your Land before you fet, and it mutt be digged three fpadesdepth, and two or three fhovellings at the leait, laid as hollow and light as may be: you may have ir digged The ch pout of natural] Land { if it be very rich indeed, thatit will feed The charge o : nie ‘ workmanthip. 49 Oxe in a fummer, itis the beft) for eight pence arodat Line don, yea for feaven pence‘and fometimes for fix pence aod, for- ty rods make a rood. which isa quarter of an Acre, which comesto about four ors |. and this ische main charge of all for three year, there is no moreunlefs it bea littlehoeing , which will off hand very faft, I believe ir will not cof above 20 ( an Ancre mere all three yeares’ both in the fetting and all the | dreffings
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