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place the turf, pared off as above, in the bottom 

 of the laft made pit, and only a fmall portion of 

 the foil above it, in order to facilitate the rotting 

 of the fward ; but the remainder of the foil from 

 the pit muft be laid on the furface, at the edge of 

 it, that it may there receive all the benefit of the 

 fummer and winter weather, to pulverize and 

 meliorate it ; while, at the fame time, the fides of 

 the pit, and the portion of foil placed over the 

 turf in the bottom of the pit, are equally expofed 

 to the beneficial action of the air. 



But, in cafes where the furface is too ftrong 

 and coarfe to be reduced to earth, by the time of 

 planting in the above manner, and yet where the 

 foil is a ftrong clay, as above, the furface muft be 

 pared off as thin as poffible ; and is to be difcard- 

 ed. In this cafe, the whole contents of the pit, 

 befide, are to be laid upon the furface at its edge, 

 which will expofe all the infide of the pit, toge- 

 ther with its contents, to the action of the wea- 

 ther; will likewife greatly pulverize and meli- 

 orate the earth, and make it a more fit receptacle 

 for the purpofed occupier than any other method 

 of management will, 



In fpots of land, which have formerly lain m a 

 wet or four ftate, and which have a coarfe fpritty 

 fward upon them, the furface of the pit is to be 

 thrown afide, and its contents expofed as above. 

 Indeed, fuch foils, although of a lighter nature 



