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Soils mostly to be preferred. 



&c. subject to a heavy and constant soak 

 throughout the autumn, winter, and spring 

 seasons ; and this where the natural soil is 

 considered of inferior quality, with the fur- 

 ther disadvantage of but little cultivation ; 

 yet under such circumstances generally af- 

 fording the most abundant crops of fullest 

 sized fruit, not in peculiar, but common 

 seasons, without any perceptible differ- 

 ence of success in the varieties, except the 

 red early Premier and yellow large Ant- 

 werp, which we have not noticed in these 

 situations. In many other places in such 

 countries, where the earth is naturally of 

 richer quality, but cool, and with the fur- 

 ther advantage of liberal cultivation, these 

 plants growing in boggy soils, somewhat 

 similar to the former, their productions 

 have been far superior to any we have else- 

 where witnessed, annually affording an abun~ 

 dant crop of very superior fruit. It has 

 been not unfrequently noticed that in fenny 



