. Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... . th a certain quantity of phlogiflic matter, the procefs is incapable of feparating anymore ; and therefore fuch water, though applied to the roots of vegetables, cannot communicate to them anyremarkable increafe. Nay, it is by no means improbable, that after water has arrived at this flate, it will, ii»ftcad of giving any frefh nourifhment to the plants, again deprive t
. Encyclopaedia : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of systems ... . th a certain quantity of phlogiflic matter, the procefs is incapable of feparating anymore ; and therefore fuch water, though applied to the roots of vegetables, cannot communicate to them anyremarkable increafe. Nay, it is by no means improbable, that after water has arrived at this flate, it will, ii»ftcad of giving any frefh nourifhment to the plants, again deprive them of the nourifhment which they havealready received ; and this is probably what Mr Bofwell means, when, in the paflage formerly quoted, hecallsihe water hu?igryl Meadow. 15 Inftance ofthe g^odeffects ofmuddy wa-ter. M £ A [ 709 1 M E A w hole days to dillurb and raife it With rakes made forthe purpofe, that it maybe carried down by the wa-ter, and fpread upon theirmeadows. One meadow inSouth Cerney, I think, is an inconteftible proof of in one part of his work at leaft, to be of a c mtraryopinion. This is in the chapter of his book, w-iiwwhere he remarks upon another publication on the. moo. 16Mr Wim-peys opi-nion uponthe fub- the richefl landin the puriih, and has produced at onecrop eighteen loads of hay, and each load more than25 hundred-weight. In further confirmation of what our author afTerts,he quotes, from the Annals of Agriculture, the fol-lowing words of Mr Wimpey: As to the forts of unimproved after many years watering.* The writer of this treatife (Mr Bofwell), in a former edition, had aflerted, and in this repeated, the contrary effeds from a dream very near the fp, ing- head, as clear as cryltal. The gentleman (Mr Beverly of Keld) whom water, little is to be found, I believe, which does that writer mentions in his preface, made a ihort vific not encourage and promote vegetation, eventhemoft laft fpring into Dorfetfltire, to fads fy himfclf of
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