12 THE FORCING GARDENER. / [B. I. 



gether to heat and fweeten, for a three 

 light box ; and after it has lain fix or eight 

 days, let it be turned over, and fhaken well 

 up a fecond time ; in which ftate let it lie 

 four or five days more. A moderate de- 

 gree of heat is required, and confequently 

 the dung fhould be carefully fermented, by 

 turning the outfides or littery parts of the 

 heap into the middle, one, two, or three 

 times, at intervals of a few days each, as 

 circumftances (hall direct. 



When the dung is judged to be in a proper 

 condition, proceed to build the bed. This 

 muft be done, in the common way, to the 

 height of four feet in the back, and three in 

 front, and about a foot larger than the frame 

 all round. Level it well; and cover the 

 whole with fquares of turf, cut fo as to 

 join again exaftly ; which lay green fide 

 down, and fmooth with the -back of the 



fpade. 



Sometimes it may be required much fooner, and fome- 

 times not till Chriflmas. I beg to obferve here, that, 

 where there is a great ftock of Afparagus, it is a good 

 way to cut over a part in May or June, to come in in 

 Autumn : but let not the gardener expect any more 

 good from the grafs fo cut, as fome pretend ; it is a, 

 fpecies of forcing, and confequently mull exhaufi na- 

 ture. 



