54 THE CULTURE OF 



The mixing ofcool Manures with Bog Earth recommended. 



one entire heap, six, nine, or twelve montlis 

 to rot, in manner as is hereafter directed 

 for Gooseberries. 



As bog soil is the common production of 

 moist and frequently watery situations, it 

 will be always most easily obtained in the 

 spring or smumer; and that procured in the 

 former season will generally be found suffi- 

 ciently ameliorated for this purpose in 

 the autumn, having laid six months to pul- 

 verize, by frequent turnings over and break- 

 ing the turf with a spade. Bog earth being 

 frequently somewhat sterile, it will always 

 be advantageous, where it is applied in the 

 cultivation of fruits, to enrich such soil as 

 much as possible, which will be best effected 

 by intermixing therewith strong but cooling 

 manures, in order to improve the size and 

 quantity of such fruits. Towards the au- 

 tumn, and some weeks before it is required, 

 the better to incorporate the whole, apply 



