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A Substitute for Bog Soil. 



upon the ground doubiy thick. The violent 

 heat of stable manure having been thus ex- 

 haled, these ingredients together will form a 

 soft, cool, moist, and excellent compost. 



As bog soil suitably soft may not be af- 

 forded in every situation, convenient substi- 

 tutes may be generally found. The best 

 we know is black rotten tree soil, which 

 may be collected in tolerable quantities 

 from the decayed trees of various descriptions, 

 recollecting that this production is from 

 the more hard wooded, as ash, elm, oak, 

 &c. especially such as have been headed 

 or cut down to form pollard ; also fruit 

 trees of large growth, as apples and pears ; 

 but that of willow, from its extreme light- 

 ness, will prove less beneficial, and being 

 frequently less decayed, requires to be more 

 finely sifted ; but in default of these a very 

 useful article may generally be obtained at a 

 trifling expence, in the decayed foliage of 



