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Definition of Bog soil
1. Noun. Poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bog Soil
Literary usage of Bog soil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1850)
"The expense of carting bog soil for any considerable distance may prevent the
realization of any real benefit. There is one point which has not been much ..."
2. The American Gardener's Magazine by C M Hovey (1835)
"Bog-soil is recommended in preference to every other, on account of its peculiar
... In situations where bog-soil, or peat cannot be readily procured, ..."
3. Digest of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into by John Pitt Kennedy, Earl of William Courtenay Devon, William Courtenay Devon (1847)
"With regard to drainage, it must be kept in mind that bog soil is very impervious
to water ... bog soil of the first class, not exceeding one foot deep, ..."
4. Poetry of the Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition of the Science of Botany by Matthias Jacob Schleiden (1853)
"The bog soil is extraordinarily poor in vegetables ; it only brings forth the
most formless and useless plants. Lastly, the garden soil not only nourishes ..."
5. The Horticultural Register by Sir Joseph Paxton, Joseph Harrison (1835)
"No doubt good bog soil, or i;ood pasture on such soils, will be deemed paradoxical,
by many persons in various pans of Great Britain, and vet nothing is ..."
6. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany. edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1848)
"When we look to the wild vegetation of our own latitudes, we find two principal
classes of soil: one a peat or bog soil, which consists almost wholly of ..."
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