Chapter M

_Mints_, several Experiments made on them, 8, _&c._
Observation upon those Experiments, and Inferences from them,
11, _&c._

N

New and Old Husbandry, the Differences between them, 254, _&c._

O

_Objections_ likely to prepossess People’s Minds against making Trials
of the Horse-hoeing Husbandry answered, 64, _&c._ 129, _&c._

P

_Pasture_ of Plants described, 22, _&c._
How the Vegetable Pasture differs from the Vegetable _Pabulum_, 22
The artificial Pasture of Plants vastly exceeds the natural,
27, _&c._
_Plants_, annual, that live the longest, have most need of hoeing, 92
They are more altered, as to their Growth, by Culture than by
Climate, 204
There is no need to change the Species of Plants in Husbandry, on
account of their supposed different Nourishment, 214, _&c._
Dr. _Woodward_’s Arguments for the vulgar Opinion in this Matter
answered, 214, _&c._
Mr. _Bradley_’s Arguments for the same vulgar Opinion answered,
222
Mr. _Bradley_’s Arguments from the perpendicular Growth of Plants
answered, 66, _&c._ 228, _&c._
Why long tap-rooted Plants do not succeed so well after one another,
as they do after those that are not tap-rooted, 232
_Individuals_ of several Species (or Sorts) of Plants, are
beneficially changed, 238, _&c._
_Partition_, what it is, 61
The Width of Partitions in the latest Practice, 108, _&c._
_Ploughs_, 277, _&c._
Hoe-Plough, 394, _&c._

Q

_Quick-lime_ for drying of brined Wheat to drill, 141

R

_Ridges_, the Methods and Reasons for making them, 241
Ridges of Six Feet, Reasons for leaving them off, 108, _&c._
_Roller_, when injurious, 46
_Rooks_, to prevent their Damage, 107, _&c._
_Roots_, their Description, 1, _&c._
Several Ways to discover their horizontal Extent, 2, _&c._
The Cause of People’s being deceived in the Extent of Roots, 5
Great Length of Roots necessary, on account of their Office, 7
How Roots and Guts agree, and wherein they differ, 6, _&c._
How Roots take in the _Pabulum_, 41
Roots have a Communication in all their Cavities, 13
Roots supply each other reciprocally with Water and Food, _ibid._
Roots cannot easily penetrate, unless the Land be opened by Tillage,
6
The Rotting of the Roots of broad Clover, and St. Foin, is a Manure
to Land, 234
_Rows_, the Inconveniencies of too many or too few on an Acre,
122, _&c._
Reasons for leaving off the middle Row, 108, _&c._
’Tis no great Odds whether the Rows of Wheat, _&c._ stand on the
precedent Partitions, or the Intervals, 424
Rows too near, and mixed Crops, discarded, 62
Single Row proposed for _Smyrna_ Wheat, 136, _&c._
Double, Treble, and even Quadruple Rows, are each called One Row, 62

S

_St. Foin_, its Description and Names, 157
Directions for planting and ordering it, 159, _&c._
St. Foin, and other long tap-rooted Plants, suffer more by their
Pasture’s being overstocked, than other Plants do, 167
Directions about St. Foin Hay, 173, _&c._
Quantity of St. Foin on an Acre, 186
Why St. Foin makes a forty times greater Crop on poor Land, than its
natural Grass or Turf, 157
Directions for saving St. Foin Seed, 178, _&c._
Of feeding St. Foin by Sheep, 187
St. Foin Plants not killed by cutting off their Heads, 188
St. Foin takes Nine Parts in Ten of its Nourishment below the Staple
of the Land, 191
Of breaking up old St. Foin, 189
Great Improvement made on Arable Land by St. Foin, 188, _&c._
_Sarrition_, 53, _&c._
_Seeds_, in their natural Climate do not degenerate, 238, _&c._
Causes why Seeds, as to their Individuals, do degenerate, _ibid._
How to know the most proper Depth to plant all sorts of Seeds at,
58, _&c._
Some sorts of Seeds come in the Air, or by Birds, 78
_Sheep_, how injurious to drilled Wheat, 149
_Smuttiness_ of Wheat, 139
The Causes of Smuttiness, _ibid._
The Cure of Smuttiness, _ibid._ _&c._
_Soils_ differ chiefly in respect of Heat and Moisture, 20, 21
A Soil can be exhausted by nothing but Roots, 276
There is no way for us to enrich a Soil but by Pulveration, and
keeping it from being exhausted by Vegetables, _ibid._
_Stratum_: The _Under Stratum_ of light Land may be richer than that
of strong Land, 191, 238

T

_Tillage_ beneficial to all Sorts of Land, 36, _&c._
Tillage can never make Land too fine, 44
Tillage of the low Vineyards, 56, _&c._
Insufficient Tillage, how ’tis injurious, 40
Tillage can pulverize as well as Dung, 35, _&c._
The Plough, in Field-tillage, why preferable to the Spade, 280
The same Quantity of Tillage will produce the same Quantity of Food,
_&c._, 230, _&c._
_Transplanting_, 48
_Trees_, the Damage they do to Crops is by robbing, as Weeds only, 74
The Reason why some sorts of Trees endure hard Winters better in
_England_ than in _Languedoc_, 202
_Trials_ unexpensive proposed, 133, _&c._
_Turneps_, the Soil most proper for them, 79
Directions concerning them, 80
Advantage of drilling and horse-hoeing of Turneps, _ibid._
Several manners of spending Turneps by Sheep, 90