FOREST PLANTATIONS. M<ty. 



than that previoufly noticed, require, even more 

 than it, the fummer* s melioration. 



Such portions of land as are of the nature of 

 mofs, will require a very different treatment from 

 either of the above. It is well known to every 

 one, that mofs dug out, and expofed to the drought 

 of fummer, forms peat : And there are few peo- 

 ple converfant with plants, and their food and 

 vegetation, who does not know, that peats (as 

 fuch) are totally incapable of fupporting vegetable 

 life. If, then, the furface of moffy land were 

 pared off, and the contents exposed as above, in 

 the cafe of flubborn clay, and four bog earth, its 

 contents would be formed into a fubftance far lefs 

 capable of fupporting vegetable life, than before 

 it was dug out. Wherever, then, moffy ground 

 occurs, the furface of the pit is to be pared off 

 three or four inches deep in a whok turf; the 

 pits are to be dug juft now, the one being filled 

 out of the other, excepting the turf pared off as 

 above, which is to be placed carefully above the 

 moffy earth in the lall filled up pit, fo as to ex- 

 clude the fev.ere adion of the drought of fummer; 

 for, if the contents of the pit be expofed to this 

 action, they become hardened, and converted into 

 a fubftance nearly refembling peat, eveii although 

 containing a confiderable portion of earthy par- 

 ticles ; while, if protected from the drought by 

 the covering 'of turf, they undergo a gradual dc- 



compofitiori^ 



