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heads have been cut, early in July the 

 leaves are to be cut over within half a 

 foot of the ground ; and the stems as 

 low as possible. In September or Oc- 

 tober, when the new shoots or leaves 

 are about two feet high, they are bound 



close with a wreath of hay or straw, Sulphate and muriate of soda 

 and earth or litter is drawn round the Carbonate of lime 

 stems of the plants. The blanching is Oxide of iron 

 perfected in a month or six weeks. If Loss 

 thechardsare wished late in the winter, They are an excellent application to 

 the whole plants may be dug up before lawns, turnips, cabbages, potatoes, and 



square yards, twenty-eight pounds is 

 an average application, and they cannot 

 be put on too fresh. 



Peat ashes contain — 

 Silica 

 Sulphate of lime 



frost sets in, and laid in sand in their 

 blanched state. In this way they may 

 be kept for several weeks. 



Gobbo. — " The stem of an artichoke 

 is bent down to a right angle, and the 

 petioles are collected and covered over 

 so as to blanch. The result is a lump, 

 which is eaten raw with salt, and is 

 tolerably good. In Italy it is used in 



peas. 



Coal ashes contain carbon, silica, 

 alumina, sulphate of lime, iron and 

 potash, carbonate of lime, and oxide of 

 iron. They are a good manure for 

 grass, peas and potatoes. Sprinkled 

 half an inch deep on the surface over 

 beans and peas, they hasten the germi- 

 nation of the seed, and preserve it from 



the autumn and winter, and replaces j mice. They are also used for forminu 



radishes." — Gard. Chroji 



ARTOCARPUS. Bread Fruit Tree. 

 Two species. Stove evergreens. Cut- 

 tings. Light rich loam. 



ARUM. Thirty-seven species. 

 Hardy, green-house, and stove. Off- 

 sets. Common soil. 



AS ARUM. Five species. Hardy, 

 herbaceous. Division. Common soil. 



ASCARICIDA 

 annuals. Seed. Rich light soil. 



ASCLEPIAS. Thirty-six species. 



dry walks in the kitchen department. 



Soap-boilers' ashes contain — 

 Silica .... 



Lime .... 



Magnesia .... 

 Alumina .... 

 Oxide of Iron 



Mangaiese 



Potash (combined with Silica) . 



Two species. Stove [ Soda (Do.) 



Sulphuric Acid (combined with 

 Lime) . . . . . 

 Chiefly hardy, and all herbaceous but Phosphoric Acid (Do.) 

 A. Greeniana and Mexicana, which are Common salt . . . . 

 stove evergreens. Seed or division 

 Peat. 



ASHES are the remains of a sub' 



35.0 



35.0 



2.3 



1.0 



1.7 

 1.8 

 0.5 

 0.2 



0.2 

 3.5 

 0.1 



Carbonic Acid (combined with 



Lime and Magnesia) . . 18.2 

 They are good for all crops but espe- 



stance which has undergone combus- i cially grass and potatoes 



tion, and are as various in their compo- | 

 nents as are the bodies capable of being 

 burnt. Whatever be the substance 



IVood ashes and the ashes of garden 

 weeds generally contain silica, alumina, 

 oxides of iron and manjianese, lime, 



burnt, the process should be made to ' magnesia, potash, partly in the state of 

 proceed as slowly as possible, for by I a silicate, soda, sulphatesof potash and 

 such regulation more carbon or char-; lime, phosphate of lime, chloride of 

 choal is preserved in the ashes, which | sodium, and carbonates of lime, potash, 

 is the most valuable of their constitu- land magnesia, with a considerable por- 

 ents. The simplest mode of etfecting tion of charcoal. They are a good appli- 

 a slow combustion is to bank it over i cation to cabbages, potatoes, and peas. 



with earth, leaving only a small orifice 

 to admit the air sufficiently to keep up 

 a smouldering fire. 



Ashes have been usually recom- 

 mended as a manure most useful to 

 heavy soils, but this is a decided mis- 

 take. As fertilizers they are beneficial 

 upon all soils, and they can never be 

 applied in sufficient quantity to alter the 



staple of a too tenacious soil. To thirty j asiaticum.) 



Turf ashes contain silica, alumina, 

 oxiiles of iron and manganese, lime, 

 magnesia, sulphates of potash and lime, 

 phosphates of lime and magnesia, com- 

 mon salt, and charcoal. They have 

 been used beneficially to grass, onions, 

 carrots, beans, potatoes, and beet root. 



ASH-TREP^. {Fraxines excelsior. 



ASIATIC-POISON bULB. {Vrinum 



