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150 FRUIT GARDEN COMPANION. 



two or three shovels full of good rotten manure, and 

 place the plant therein, healing it over with soil. 

 The after management is to keep the ground well 

 manured and dig it every fall, and give it the very 

 best of culture. 



Rhubarb is often forced or forwarded in the 

 spring by placing over the crown of the stools an 

 empty barrel, and covering well around the outside 

 with horse manure, old tan, or other substance to 

 start it into growth early. Many other methods 

 may be successfully applied, as forcing in large pots 

 or tubs, in the vinery or any other glass-houses 

 where the temperature is kept a few degrees above 

 freezing. Where it is required early, (and nothing 

 will pay better,) it may be forced in a garden frame. 

 To accomplish this, procure at the beginning of 

 March a quantity of hot horse manure, and if a 

 portion of oak leaves preserved in the fall is mixed 

 with it the better, prepare the bed by mixing and 

 getting the manure in a state of fermentation ; then 

 make up the bed, place the frame over it, and put 

 into six inches of light earth or old tan ; place the 

 roots over it, and close the frame to draw the heat, 

 $nd manage it in the usual manner by giving air by 

 day, covering by night, &c. 



