Art of Husbandry.

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The befi way of planting cfTrefoyl or Clover-orafs.

T Here are several sorts of Clover, I shall onlyspeak of thegreatC over that we fetch fromFlanders, called Trcfoyl, named by CInfos Trefo-lio ma)m tertium , which bears the red Honey-suckle,whose root and branches far exceed our naturalMeadow-Clover, and bears a very small seed likeMultard seed, not so round, but longer like a Bean;the belt is of a greenish yellow colour, some a littlereddish; the black, I suppose, will not do well.Your Dutch or Low-Country seed, or from the lo-wer parts of Germany , is very much of it, but ve-ry hazardous that comes over hither; but being wellchose there (for the choice is the Master-piece ofthe work ) the transporting of it by Sea is no consi-derable prejudice to it; But much of it that wasfold in the Seedmens Shops in London was eithercorrupted by the Dutch before it came thence, orelse parched by our drying, or else by the Shop-keepers, either mingled with old or new, or keep-ing it another year, and then felling it for new. Thebest; way of sowing of this Dutch Seed, must be bymixture of it with Ashes of Wood, or Coals coars-ly sifted, or with seme Dust, or good Sand, orfine Mould, or any thing else that will help to fill theLand, or spread well forth of the Land : and afterthis I must press as the weightiest thing of this Hus-bandry, to have a most special care of the even sow-ing of it, because the wind, though very small, hathpower over this, and therefore you must chuse ascalm a time as possibly you can. You may sow it

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