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on mofs is likely to be foon obtained. This gentleman’s conduit asan agricultural merits the higheft encomium. He holds an extenfiveeftate, in a high expofure, and not naturally of a very fertile quali-ty ; and for many years has, with unwearied affiduity, attended toits improvement. Every probable fcheme by which the appearanceof the country can be improved, and its produdlivenefs increafed,he has adopted and improved ; and he has now the pleafure of feeinghis extenfive plantations in a thriving condition, and greatly advanc-ed—his numerous fences in the beft order—and iiis fields in the moltexaft culture, andprodudtive Hate. His generous ardour, however, forthe improvement of the country continues unabated. As foon as hehad informed himfelf of the value of florin grafs, he planted a numberof acres of mofs with it, which is now yielding plentiful crops.But this lying low, and furrounded with higher grounds, may beprefumed to be fcarceiy a fair trial of what could be done on puremofs. He has therefore been operating, of late, on a high lying flowmofs of confiderable extent, and has already planted about twentyacres with the fame plant. After the rough furface turf is paredoff and dried, it is burnt in heaps, and the afhes fpread : the wholeris then dug over with the fpade, quite level, with ebb furface fur-oows, at regular diftances. The firings of the grafs are then laidan the furface at fmall diftances from one another, and covered withcompoft made up of burnt earth prepared along the fide of themofs, crude earth arid lime. All this is executed at the rate of 12I.per acre. In October 1813, the grafs which had been planted thepreceding autumn and winter had covered the ground; and, where-the heaps of turf had been burnt, had grown with great vigour, inother places with lefs. Should the grafs be worth 20s. an acreper annum (and it is expedted to be worth more), and continue inthe fame productive ftate, the money will be very advantageouflylaid out ; and this liberal agricultural will have the merit of fettingan example which will induce many others to follow it, by whichufelefs moffes will become valuable, and the face of the country beimproved.
Query 4 th. Whether do fueh applications on mofs as tend topromote folidity, or fuch as increafe porofity, appear modeligible ?
Answer. It will not be denied, that the elafticity of the fila-ments of mofs, which makes it lye open and porous, is one greatcaufe of its sterility. The application of cotnpadt lying earth, hastherefore been recommended, not only for promoting diflclution, butfor increafing the confiftence. But all agriculturifts, from LordKames to the prefent day, confider lime as having a tendency tofeparate the parts of too compadt foils, and rendering them morefriable ; and for that reafon they recommend the dofe of lime to be 1increafed in proportion to the compadlnefs of the foil. Lime, there-fore, cannot be a fit application for unmixed mofs 5 but when there' VOL. II. E R