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plantation ; they are a number of single ferred of a moderate size ; but culinary 

 trees. A thick grove is not, indeed, ex- vegetables should be grown rapidly, 

 posed to this mischief, and certain situ- | and of as gigantic a size as may be. 

 ations may recommend different shapes [ G R Y L L T A L P A . See Mole- 

 and different greens for their effects up- Cricket. 



on the surface. The eye, attracted into 

 the depth of the grove, passes by little 

 circumstances at the entrance; even 

 varieties in the form of the line do not 

 always engage the attention, they are 

 not so apparent as in a continued tliick- 

 et, and are scarcely seen if they are not 

 considerable. 

 "But the surface and the outline are not 



GUAIACUM. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Ripe cuttings. Rich 

 loam. 



GUANO. This now celebrated ma- 

 nure has been known as the chief fer- 

 tilizer employed by the Peruvians, 

 almost as long as that part of the New 

 World has been recognized by geo- 

 graphers. Its name, in the language of 



the only circumstances to be attended ' that country, signifies the manure — and 

 to. Though a grove be beautiful as an it merits such distinction, as being one 

 object, it is, besides, delightful as a of the most powerful assistants to vege- 

 spot to walk or to sit in ; and the choice tation which can be applied to the soil, 

 and the disposition of the trees for , Guano is not peculiar to Peru, but is 

 effect within are therefore a principal : found in immense beds upon many rocks 

 consideration. Mere irregularity alone ' and islands of the Atlantic, being the 

 will not please, strict order is there excrements of the marine birds frc- 

 more agreeable than absolute confusion, quenting those ocean solitudes. It has 

 and some meaning better than none. , been lately analyzed by Dr. Ure, who 

 A regular plantation has a degree of reports it as composed of the following 



proportional constituents: — 



Azotized organic matter," 

 including urate of am- 

 monia, and capable of 

 affording from 8 to 17 >50.0 

 per cent, of ammonia I 

 by slow decomposition | 

 in the soil ... .J 



Water 



Phosphate of lime . . 



Ammonia, phosphate of"") 

 magnesia, phosphate of 

 ammonia, and oxalate I .-« 

 of ammonia, contain- ,' 

 ing from 4 to 9 per cent. | 

 of ammonia J 



Siliceous matter ... 1.0 



This analysis explains the source from 

 whence failure has been derived to 



beauty; but it gives no satisfaction, be- 

 cause we know that the same number 

 of trees might be more beautifully ar- 

 ranged. A disposition, however, in 

 which the lines only are broken, with- 

 out varying the distances, is less natural 

 than any ; for though we cannot find 

 straight lines in a forest, we are habitu- 

 ated to them in the hedge-rows of fields ; 

 but neither in wild nor in cultivated 

 nature do we ever see trees equidistant 

 from each other; that regularity be- 

 longs to art alone. The distances, there- 

 fore, should be strikingly different; the 

 trees should gather into groups, or stand 

 in various irregular lines, and describe 

 several figures ; the intervals between 

 them should be contrasted both in shape 

 and in dimensions ; a large space should 

 in some places be quite open, in others | many who have tried it. It is the most 

 the trees should be so close together as | violently stimulating of all the known 

 hardly to leave a passage between them ; ' natural manures, and they have applied 

 and in others as far apart as the con- it too abundantly. This is shown by 

 nexion will allow. In the forms and the experiments of Mr. Maund. When 

 the varieties of these groups, these applied to Strawberries once a week in 

 lines, and these openings, principally a liquid state, (four ounces to a gallon,) 

 consists the interior beauty of a grove." it made them very vigorous and pro- 



11.0 

 25.0 



— Whateley. 

 GROWTH. 



j ductive; but sprinkled upon some young 

 It may be taken as a seedlings of the same fruit it killed them. 



universal maxim in gardening, that slow Two ounces per yard, (five cwt. per 

 growth and smallness of size increases acre,) were sprinkled over Onions, and 

 the intensity of flavour, and that rapidity they doubled the untreated in size. 

 of growth and increase of size render Potatoes manured with one ounce and a 

 flavour more mild. Fruit, therefore, j half per yard, were rendered much 

 should be ripened slowly, and be pre- 1 more luxuriant than others having no 



