FRUIT-TREES. 13 



Perhaps it may be thought by fome, that 

 taking off the turf and burning it will fpoil 

 much land ; but the quantity pared will on- 

 ly be about twice as much as the borders 

 contain -, and for the reparation of the land 

 thus pared, there may be taken from the 

 places where the fires were made the depth 

 of two inches of earth, which, with a fmall 

 part of the afhes fpread over the other parts 

 of the ground, will m.ake amends for the lofs 

 of turf; and if it is ploughed and fown with 

 corn or turnips, and, after the crops are 

 taken off, it be laid down with proper grafs 

 feeds, it will not be worfe for meadow, 

 or pafturing, than it was before paring. 



'Tis manifeft that fire has a wonderful 

 effect upon land; for when it is burnt, by 

 way of improvement, either to fow with 

 corn, rape-feed, or turnips, if all the afhes be 

 clean taken away,and part of the earth, from 

 the places where the fires were made, yet 

 thefe places may be eafily diftinguilhed, by 

 the crops growing much ftronger upon 

 them, and are of a darker green than the 

 other parts, v^here the afiies were fpread ; 

 which ihews that thefe places are more fer- 

 tile than the reft of the ground ; and there- 

 fore 



