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, bordering 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 mois- 

 ture, most essential to their cultivation, 

 have, in a few years, totally decayed away 

 and died off, after the trifling product of 

 small and inferior fruit, unworthy the trou- 

 ble of collecting. 



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 argumerft in favour of 

 the utility of rich, loose, cool, and deep 



