342- On the Introduction of Salt 



' The following is a statement of the produce of the crops 

 grown on the soil. 



Windsor Beans. reduce in B,«heU 



Ex. I. Soil without any manure 135 J 



2. Soil dressed with twenty bushels of salt per acre, 



a week before seed time 217 



Onions, 



Tons, cwt, qrs, lbs. 



1. Soil manured with twenty bushels of salt, and) 3 lo •? lo 



ten tons of farm yard manure j 



2. Soil with twelve tons' yard manure , . . . 2 10 2 19 



Carrots. 



1. Soil with twenty bushels of salt, and twenty ^ 2,3 6 1 18 



tons" yard manure .J 



2. Soil with twenty tons' yard manure .... 22 18 26 



3. Soil with twenty bushels of salt 18 2 



4. Soil without any manure 13400 



Parsnips. 



1. Yard manure twenty tons, salt twenty bushels 6 15 



2. Yard manure twenty tons 61100 



Early Potatoes. 



Bushels. 



1 Soil without any manure 308 



2 Soil with twenty bushels of salt 584* 



In a communication lately received from Mr. Hogg, an 

 eminent florist of Paddington, he observes, " from the few 

 experiments I have tried with salt as a garden manure, I am 

 fully prepared to bear testimony to its usefulness : the idea that 

 first suggested itself to my mind arose from contemplating the 

 successful cultivation of hyacinths in Holland. This root, 

 though not indigenous to the country, may be said to be com- 

 pletely naturalized in the neighbourhood of Haerlem, where it 

 grows luxuriantly in a deep sandy alluvial soil ; yet one great 

 catise of its free growth I considered was owing to the saline 

 atmosphere : this induced me to mix salt in the compost, and 

 I am satisfied that no hyacinths will grow well at a distance 

 from the sea without it. I am also of opinion that the nu- 

 merous bulbous tribe of amaryllises, especially those from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, ixias, alliums, (which include onions, 

 garlic, shalotjs, &c.)" anemonies, various species of the lily, 

 antholyza, colchicum, crinum, cyclamens, narcissus, iris, gla- 

 diolus, rantmCulus, fecilla; and many others, should have either 

 salt or sea-sajid. in, the mould u§e4fojt{iem«? . . . 

 * * See Observations on Salt, fourth edition, p. 13. 



