90 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



In thin soils this mode is eminently useful, 

 the turf, for the most part, constituting, or at 

 least containing what is valuable therein. 

 And since it is frequently necessary, before 

 the tree can be kept in position, to go deeper 

 than the turf or upper soil will admit of; 

 by burying the turf in the bottom, and co- 

 vering it even with what might be noxious 

 to the plant, a fit mould is prepared for its 

 reception against the planting season. 



Wherefore, if we admit \\\zi fallowing and 

 aerating land is of advantage, and that the 

 above process is a species thereof, so far as 

 the case will admit, reason at least would 

 seem to approve of the practice. The event 

 hath justified it. I have always found, all 

 other circumstances concurring, the trees 

 whose pits were made before midsummer, 

 surpass those whose pits were made after that 

 time. 



Whence, I made it a rule to pit land of a 

 rough sward sooner in the season than that 

 of a more smooth texture, that the vegeta- 

 bles on its surface might have the more time 

 to dissolve into nutritive matter for the im*- 



