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quantity sufficient, over the whole field, 

 otherwise on the wet or colder spots. But 

 if the ground is such that it will not admit 

 of ploughing, let the ashes be mixed up with 

 part of the best surface mould, to keep 

 them from blowing abroad ; and in the pro- 

 cess of pitting, let a little of this compost be 

 intimately mixed with the mould of each 

 pit; previously distributing it in small heaps 

 at convenient distances, for facilitating the 

 operation : and this extra trouble will be 

 amply repaid by the progress the plants will 

 rtiake in consequence. 



Accident, which discovers many valua- 

 ble secrets, first led me to the knowledge of 

 this ; and I am so fully convinced of its ef- 

 ficacy, that I would seriously recommend 

 the practice in all cases where opportunity 

 affords the means. 



Having cut the whins, which were the 

 most luxuriant crop of the kind I had ever 

 seen, of a field which was planted with tim- 

 ber-trees the following season, they were 

 gathered into wind-rows and burnt. The 

 ashes were not spread, but negligently suf- 

 fered to remain as they lay, the wind, per- 



