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I HAVE just read a French translation, by my old friend Prof. Henry of the Nancy Forest School, of Wollny's classic work on the decomposition of organic matter. In it I find the statement that spring and autumn frosts are dangerous on peaty soils only when the surface of the latter is dry. Wollny gives no illustrations of this law, but I recently observed one in my garden at Coopers Hill.
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FISHER, W. Humus as a Preservative Against Frost. Nature 65, 152 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065152a0
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