. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 209 Moot. MOOT. To moot, in Western parlance, is to root up. MOEASS. A bog, quagmire, or sloughy spot, MORIL. A kind of mushroom of the size of a walnut, MOSSES. Vaiious species of hardy self-propa- gating plants, with which Nature covers everything naked and poor, from barren rocks and the trunks of trees to po- verty-struck undrained pastu
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LIFE. 209 Moot. MOOT. To moot, in Western parlance, is to root up. MOEASS. A bog, quagmire, or sloughy spot, MORIL. A kind of mushroom of the size of a walnut, MOSSES. Vaiious species of hardy self-propa- gating plants, with which Nature covers everything naked and poor, from barren rocks and the trunks of trees to po- verty-struck undrained pastures. In the economy of Nature they exercise an important agency in the for- mation of soils; for by coating the bare rock, and keeping it ;~^ perpetually damp, and ga- thering much water to perco- late through its fissures, dis- integration is in time effected. On naked sands, too, a mass of humus is gradually formed for the nourisliment of larger plants. In wet moorland, particularly in shady situa- tions, moss grows very ra- pidly, and is no doubt a fruitful source of peat. But moss is at times an unwel- come intruder, particularly in poor, unchained pastures. But the farmer ought to regard this as Nature's own protest against poverty. All he has to do is to drain them of stagnant water, and cover their surfaces with good coatings of farmyard dung or lime compost, and the moss will take its departure spontaneously. MOULTER, A Yorkshire name for the miller's toll or share of the grist for grinding. MOUNTAIN ASH (Pyrus aucupa- ria). Called also Rowan-tree, is a beau- tiful deciduous tree, producing in May and June numerous panicles of Mouse Ear (Cerastium arvense). white blossoms highly fraj.'rant, which are succeeded by scarlet beiries, ripe in October. It attains its greatest per- fection in Britain, in the Highlands of Scotland, wherever it meets with rich soil. It will thrive in elevated situa- tions, and bear exposure better than most other trees, but likes best a cool soi
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