48 THE CULTURE OF 



Soils mostly to be preferred. 



countries, the same garden, consisting of 

 low and cool bog soil, and of more dry or 

 skirt land, bordeiing on the high country, 

 has afforded the most opposite productions 

 of these fruits and plants ; the former of 

 very luxuriant growth in wood, and an abun- 

 dant produce of superior fruit ; whilst the 

 latter, from the unfriendliness of a dry and 

 warm soil, with the want of that moisture, 

 most essential to their cultivation, have, in a 

 few years, totally decayed away and dried 

 off, after the trifling product of small and 

 inferior fruit, unworthy the trouble of col- 

 lecting. 



To self-propagating trees, shrubs, and 

 plants, by suckers, as the several varieties of 

 the Raspberry, cool and soft soils will not 

 only be found the most favourable, but they 

 appear more natural than any other, which 

 affords presumptive argument in favour of 

 the utility of rich, loose, cool, and deep 



