134 NATURAL GRASSES. , 2 . 



This led to an experiment with a fmaller 

 quantity ; namely, four chaldron an acre -, 

 on a piece of declining moffy fward, on a 

 burning fand, in an upland fituation. 



This experiment was made lafl autumn. 

 The prefent ftateof it isftrikingfSept. 1787). 

 The entire countenance of the land is changed : 

 the fward has acquired a dark-green healthy 

 colour ; and the mofs has already moft of it 

 difappeared : while the remainder of the 

 piece (the whole eaten with fheep) is cover- 

 ed with a fleece of mofs intermixed with 

 parched ft raw- coloured herbage. 



Thus far, and as far as one experiment 

 will go, this under notice is decifively in fa- 

 vour of lime being beneficial to a fcorching 

 upland foil. For reviving the productive- 

 nefs of old fheep-walks and rabbit-warrens 

 lime may, perhaps, be found a molt profit- 

 able manure. 



A remarkable incident occurs this year 

 (1787) near Pickering. Part of the com- 

 rnon has been, I believe, time immemorial, 

 in ufe as a whitening-ground provincially, 

 <; bleaching-greens." The foil, drift fand 

 left by a brook which frequently overflows 

 thole greens ; the Aibfoil gravel ; left in all 



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