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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    Chap.i43. Reducement of Land to priffine Fertility, th M | Yi gaieol a, i ~ | Lhe fixth, and laf Piece of improve- i ment. for the difcovering what iF re | great advancemay be made upon our n ra Patty ‘in ; Lands by a Plantation of Some s if. : Orchard-fruits , and fome Garden» t commodities. i CHAP. XLIIEf. Treats how our Lands may. be advanced by planting: them with Orchard: finits. Koss Nd_ for making good the Improvement-pro- $s mifed,. I thall. thew thefe two or three things. © That abundance of land is Haned te many parts of this Nation, a | and thus improved. 2. That there is- a y land, and very much, in.all other parts chat i “4 may be improved. 3: The fruits efpecially, by which they ? come to fuch an improvement, | , I That thereis fuch land already improved... none dare deny; to that height as is affirmed, many will queftion ; ] What pares therefore doe in briefe.affirme for. my prefident, that, wr- prove the ime - cefterfbire, part. of Glocefterfbire 5, and part. of Hereford(bire provemens.. will {peake out this truth , fome men. having-their Planta- tions,both of Apples, Pears,and Cheries,and fo ordered that they hinder no more the growth of graffe then the compaffe of a tree that grows.upon it ;. nay, fome queftion. whether with their fhadineffe in Summer, and warmneffe in Winter, _ they better nos the Jand farre more, and their very growing ey LT upon.
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