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Soil. Two-thirds of good loamy kitchen-garden 

 mould, one-third of old rotten cows' dung, or hot- 

 bed dung, and to every eight barrowfuls of this a 

 barrowful of sea-sand. He adds, " If your ground 

 is naturally sandy, after having mixed it with the 

 dung above mentioned, add thereto a third of 

 good fat marl ; which succeeded so well with me, 

 that in this compost I had much larger fruit than in 

 any other compound which I used to give them, 

 which induced me to put, at all times, a good deal 

 of marl in the compost I used for these plants." 

 This mixture should lie for six months in those 

 parts of the garden which are airy and least ex- 

 posed to the sun ; after the first three months, turn 

 it over every fortnight. Scots Gardeners 9 Directory, 

 2d edit p. 124. 



General management. The same as is given by 

 Miller. He tried some plants turned out of the 

 pots with their balls, and planted in the bark for the 

 last nine months before the fruit ripened, and found 

 the fruit larger and earlier, but not better flavoured 

 than that of the plants in pots. In shifting, he 

 never cuts off any of the leaves ; " for it is certain," 

 he adds, " that the leaves of all plants and trees bear 

 the same office to them, as the pulmonary vessels 

 do to human bodies." He waters over the leaves 

 when the plants have shewn fruit ; because the fruit 

 stalks, occupying what in young plants was a hol- 

 low tube, no injury can happen. P. 129. 



Insects. At the first appearance of the bug, he 

 picks off the scale with a piii ; and if that does not 



