1.Calcifuge Describing plants that grow on soils containing very little calcium carbonate, such as sandy or peaty soils and cannot grow on basic substrates such as most chalk and limestone soils.
7.He grew a few potatoes on sour, peaty soil, and cut the tufts of grass that grew by themselves on the ground about the house—that was Brede's farming.
9.Here and there he stops to dig with an iron tool, and finds good mould, or peaty soil, manured with the rotted wood and fallen leaves of a thousand years.