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competition, which they never would have expe- 

 rienced under different circumftances ; and the 

 pits will thus be better fitted to receive plants 

 in the coming fpring, than by any other manner 

 of pitting fuch foils that we are acquainted 

 with. 



Neverthelefs, if fuch molfy grounds are of 

 confiderable extent, we would recommend their 

 being pared and burnt, as above advifed ; and 

 the more fo, if they be very much inclined to 

 mofs, and efpecially if they be covered with 

 very coarfe graffes and carices. The depth of 

 the pits, in the prefent cafe, ought not to be 

 above a foot. The depth of the pits for the 

 clay foil, provided there be no variation of quality 

 from the furface downwards, may alfo be a foot ; 

 but if the foil change, at fix or eight inches, to a 

 crude unfriendly fubflratum, the pit mould not be 

 deepened above two or three inches into fuch fub- 

 foil : However, in pitting any land, the fward of 

 which contains all the foil apparently fit for fup- 

 porting vegetation, it will be neceflary to bury the 

 fward in the bottom of the pit, and cover it with 

 three or four inches of the bad fubfoil, in order 

 to promote the decompofition of the fward. The 

 breadth of the pits ought not to be lefs than twelve 

 inches \ nor need they be more than fifteen. In 

 digging any pit, the bottom mould be kept as wide 

 as the top. 



On many rocky fpots of the propofed planta- 

 tion. 



