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much water in the passage. When they arrive ness, tainting the juices of the plants. This 

 in a cold climate, they should he screened from effect is, however, much to be disputed, since 

 cold. The plants should afterwards be set in the different substances are changed and elabo- 

 pots rilled with light kitchen-garden earth, and rated in the vessels of the vegetables before 

 be placed in a dry stove, where, in warm wea- they become fit for the purpose of their Hi- 

 ther, thev should have fresh air dailv, and in crease. 



winter the air be kept up to temperate, as The author of the Scotch Forcing Gardener 



marked on the botanical thermometer; as they asserts that « a combination of stable dung, 



do not succeed well in the tan-bed. sea weed, lime, and vegetable mould, which 



Where the nuts are made use of, they should has lain in a heap for three or tour months, and 



be sent over in wax to preserve their vegetative has been two or three times turned during that 



property. 



They may also be increased from cuttings, in 

 the manner of Gardenia, in this climate. 

 MANGO-TREE. See Mangifera. 

 MANGROVE GRAPE-TREE. See Coc- 



COLOBA. 



MANNA ASH. See Fraxinus. 

 MANURE, such substances or materials, 



period, will make an excellent Manure for most 

 kinds of garden land." Also that of " cow dung 

 and sheep dung, mixed with soot or any of the 

 kinds of ashes ;" and that " pigeon dung, 

 marie, and vegetable mould, well mixed, will 

 make an excellent Manure for heavy land ; or 

 even for lighter soils, provided the pigeon dung 

 be used sparingly. " But that " pigeon dung, 



whether of the duns, compost, or other kinds, lime, soot, ashes, &c, should never be applied 



as are useful in the improvement of land, so as in a simple state : the quantity of them requir- 



to produce good vegetable crops. ed being comparatively small, and the regular 



Materials of this kind are necessary to all distribution difficult without the admixture of 



soils, to repair them when exhausted by the other matter. He further observes, that he has 



growth of vegetables, and cure their defects ; " witnessed the astonishing effects of whin 



being thus beneficial in enriching and fertilizing ashes alone, in producing herbage in a five or 



such as are poor, and in rendering such as arc six fold degree; which was the more obvious, 



strong or stubborn more light, loose, and fri 

 able, as well as those which are very light, loose, 

 and dry, more compact and moist, and those 

 that are too wet drier, &e. In this view, moist 

 stiff land is the most improved by light Manures, 



on account that the field on which they were 

 applied was much alike in quality (a stiff, wet, 

 clayey loam), and the ashes applied partially. 

 The effect was visible for several successive 

 years. Also, on the timber trees with which the 



conceives 



which open and loosen its particles ; very light field was afterwards planted." He 

 land by the more heavy and moist sorts ; and that " marie is an excellent Manure for almost 

 wet land by dry light composts. Some soils any soil; and may be applied as a simple with 

 also require Manure annually, while others as much propriety as any of the kinds of cattle 

 only once in two or three vears. See Dung, &c. dung, or even vegetable earth. The kind called 

 The most proper sorts of Manure for the use shell marie is, he thinks, much to be preferred; 

 of the kitchtn-garden are those of the stable, and should be freely applied to strong lands,but 

 cow, sheep, and pigeon dung, soot, lime, loamy 

 marie, shell marie, sea-weed, wood, whin, fern, 

 and coal ashes, the vegetable mould of decayed 

 tree-leaves, and decayed vegetables of all kinds, 

 as cabbage leaves, haulm, weeds, &c. And to 

 these may be added the fluid substance which 

 drains from dunghills, which is capable of af- 

 fording the nutrition of plants in a very high 

 degree, from the large proportion of carbona- 

 ceous matter that it contains. 



These materials may be applied either in a 

 simple or compound state ; but the latter me- 

 thod is probably in general the most eligible ; 



sparingly to light : the loamy kind being best 

 adapted to light lands." 



When stable dung is used in a simple state, 

 it " should not," he supposes, "be applied in too 

 rank a state, nor should it be too much fer- 

 mented. It should generally lie in a heap for 

 two or three months; during which time it 

 should be turned twice or thrice. A ton of it 

 in this state is worth three that has been used 

 in the hot bed, and is a year old. This Ma- 

 nure, and indeed dung of any kind, when thus 

 applied, should never be carried from the heap 

 to the ground till it is to be digged in ; as, by 



as it is supposed by some, that if they have not its exposure to the air, the virtues evaporate, 



undergone a proper degree of fermentation, and it is the less effectual." 



they have the effect of giving a rank and disa- And when made use of in a simple condi- 



greeable flavour to some fruits and vegetables ; tion, he imagines " the necessity of the in- 



aiul when a large quantity is applied," of pro- stant application of sea weed after its landing, is 



dncing a considerable degree of unwholesome- even greater than the above case j as it instantly 



