The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele.

  • Steele, Andrew.
Date:
1826
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Credit: The natural and agricultural history of peat-moss or turf-bog. To which are annexed corroborative writings, correspondence and observations... / by Andrew Steele. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the mosses of Scotland cannot fail to contribute greatly to the fertility and richness of the kingdom, and seems to be one of the safest speculations in which a proprietor or tenant can employ his money, more especially since experience has proved, that the mere act of draining mosses is the principal ex¬ pence attending their improvement; for while lime * or other calcareous manures were understood to be necessary, its distance from many mosses, as well as the expence, might naturally deter prudent people from the undertaking. As to the growth of trees on drained mosses, Mr Dempster observes, that, on the dry parts of the Moss of Resteneth, the Scotch firs, the seeds of which had been blown from some neighbouring plantations of that wood, took root, and grew very kindly; though they have since been destroyed by the pasturing of cattle on the moss, after obtaining the height of two or three feet.