ON P :L A N T I N -Q 



CHAP. Ill, 



Planting Moors and Commons covered 

 *wi}h long Heath. 



THERE are large hills, moors, and 

 commons covered with long heath ; 

 fuch places are of more value than is ge- 

 nerally imagined. The heath which grows 

 .on them plainly mews the ground is fertile, 

 and if they had been planted fome years 

 fince would have been fine forefts, and not 

 one fprig of heath to be feen. It is the beft 

 foil for planting in England, and will bring 

 trees to as great perfection as our beft land, 

 and with fmall expence. 



THIS foil, in appearance, is a light, 

 black peat earth ; but it is of a far fuperior 

 nature, for on that black, loofe, mofly 

 earth grows little heath, only a ftrong 

 benty grafs, and a little foft mofly earth 

 below the grafs, then a hard kind of peat ? 



which 



