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almost useless if preserved until the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, 

 spring; if, however, neglected until that with a small addition of saline matters, 

 season, the earlier it is inserted the The general consideration o\' Mamtres 

 better. will be found under that title, and other 



Mode of Cultivation. — Sow mode- relative infurination under the heads 

 rately thin, in drills a foot asunder, and Dung and Vegetable Matters, and in 

 half an inch deep. When arrived at a this place I shall confine my attention to 

 height of live or six inches, the plants some of the most available of strictly 



animal matters. See also the article 



Bones. 



Blubber, or fat of the whale, contains 



must be thinned, and those removed 

 transplanted, to a distance of at least 

 two feet and a half from each other, 

 either in a bed, or on the sides of ditches, train oil, composed of 



&c. Water iii abundance must be given 

 at the time of removal, as well as until 

 they are established ; but it is better 

 to discontinue it during their further 



Carbon .... 6S.S7 



Hydrogen . . . 16.10 



Oxygen .... 15.03 



with a little animal skin and muscle. 



growth, unless the application is regular Forty gallons of train oil, mixed with 

 and frequent. In the IMay, or early | 120 bushels of screened soil, grew 

 June of the second year, they flower, twenty-three tons of turnips per acre, 

 when they must be cut down, which on a soil where forty bushels of l)ones 

 causes them to sprout again, and if this broken small, and eighty bushels of 



is carefully attended to, they will con- 

 tinue for three or four years; but if per- 

 mitted to run to seed, they perish soon 

 after. 



Seed. — A little seed should be saved 



burnt earth, produced only twenty-one 

 tons. 



Fish generally, such as sprats, her- 

 rings, pilchards, five-fingers, and shell- 

 fish, owe their powerful fertilizing quali- 



annually, as a resource in case of any \ lies not only to the oil they contain, but 



accidental destruction of the crop. 



also to the phosphate of litne in their 



ANGK.LICA-TREE, Aralia spinosa. • bones. From twenty-five to forty-five 



ANGEONIA salicdriafolia. Stove I bushels per acre are the extreme quan- 



herbaceous. Cuttings. Sandy rich loam. ', titles to be applied broad-cast, but if in 



ANGIANTHUS aureus. Green-house the drills, with the crop sixteen bushels 



herbaceous. Division. Loam and peat. 



ANGLE-SHADES MOTH. SeePho- 

 lo gopher a. 



ANGOPHORA. Two species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat, 

 Band, and loam. 



are ample. Th(?y are beneficial to all 

 the gardener's crops, but especially to 

 asparagus, parsnips, carrots, beets, on- 

 ions, and beans. Shell-fish should be 

 broken before being applied. 



Blood is a very rich manure, and has 



ANGR.^CUM. Nine species. Stove ; been used with especial benefit to vines, 

 epiphytes. Cuttings. Wood, or moss i and other fruit trees. The blood of the 



and potsherds, in baskets. 



ANGUILLARIA. Three species. 

 Half-hardy herbaceous. Offsets. Sandy 

 peat. 



ANGURIA. Four species. Stove 

 evergreen climbers. Division. Loam 

 and peat. 



ANIA &/rorn«s. Stove epiphyte. Off- 

 sets. Peat and potsherds. 



ANIGOZANTHOS. Three species. 

 Green-house herbaceous. Division. 

 Sandy peat, 



ox contains about eighty per cent, of 

 water, and twenty per cent, solid mat- 

 ter. The latter contains in 100 parts 

 when dried, 



Carbon .... 51.950 

 Hydrogen . . . 7.165 

 Azofe . . . . 17.172 

 Oxygen. . . . 19.295 

 Ashes .... 4.418 

 The ashes contain various salts, as 

 chloride of sodium, (common salt,) 

 phosphate of lime, with a little oxide of 



AXI.MAL MATTERS, without any iron. Sugar -bakeys skimmings owe 

 exception, are beneficial as manures, for I their chief fertilizing qualities to the 

 they all yield during putrefaction gases i blood used in clarifying the sugar, and 

 and soluble substances that are imbibed , which is combined with vegetable albu- 

 greedily by the roots of plants. That men and extractive, 

 this is the case affords no cause for won- Woollen Rngs, cut into very small 

 dcr, because animal matters and vege- pieces, are a good manure, decomposing 

 table matters are alike compounded of, slowly, and benefiting the second as 



