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draining, would be foreign to the fubje6t 

 here 3 and the reader is referred to Mr 

 Elkington's, as explained by Mr John- 

 Hone 3 being at once the moil effectual 

 and leaft expenfive method* 



SECTION III. 

 On the Kinds of MANURE Jit for Orchards. 



ORCHARD ground fliould be moderate- 

 ly enriched with the kinds moft pro- 

 perly applicable to the foil. Compoft is 

 to be preferred to iimples. 



If the foil is of a cold nature, a compoft 

 of lime, ftable-dung, pigeon-dung, foot, 

 afhes, &c. is to be advifed ; if light and 

 hot, cow-dung, hogs-dung, loamy marl, 

 pond-mud, fcouring of ditches, &c. 3 or, 

 as fimples, any of the kinds which is beft 

 calculated to corredl or enrich the foil. 

 Marls are eminently ufeful, and, in gene- 

 ral, are to be preferred to lime, being 

 lefs apt to canker the roots of fruit-trees. 



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