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dung to the garden, when no longer in active fer- 

 mentation. 



An anonymous annotator (to the copy of 

 Taylor's book, in the library of the Horticultural 

 Society) says, " I find by experience, that the 

 dung of four horses is sufficient to work two- 

 frames twenty-six feet each in length, and six in 

 breadth ; one for the fruiting-house, the other for 

 succession plants ; and that it may be reasonably 

 expected to cut forty fruit yearly after the first 

 year, and the dung as valuable for the field or gar- 

 den, as if this use had not been made of it." P. 3. 



Soil. " Take one load of mould from under the 

 turf of a good pasture, and, if it be very light, add 

 to it the fourth part of a load of good mellow loam : 

 but if it be of itself of a loamy nature, mix into 

 it two or three bushels of sea-sand. Then take the 

 fourth part of a load of dung from a cow-yard, if 

 it can be thence procured ; but if not, take the 

 same quantity of good rotten dung from your old 

 cucumber or melon beds. Mix these well toge- 

 ther, and turn the whole three or four times, that 

 it may thoroughly imbibe the air. All the large 

 clods should be well broken, but not sifted or 

 screened, as is the practice with many; so shall 

 you have a compost, which is excellently adapt- 

 ed to the growth and nourishment of the plants/* 

 P. 15. 



General Management. He takes great care to 

 keep his plants in a dormant state during winter; 

 but about the end of March and April, he applies 



