332 THE/ KITCHEN GARDENER. [B. 3. 



CHAPTER III. 



ON MANURES, AND THEIR APPLICATION. 



THOSE moft to be preferred for the 

 ufe of the kitchen-garden are fta- 

 ble-dung, cow-duiig, hog-dung, flieep-dung, 

 pigeon-dung, foot, lime, loamy marl, fhell- 

 marl, fea-weed, wood-afhes, whin-aflies *, 

 fern-afhes, coal-afhes, vegetable mould of 

 decayed tree-leaves ; and vegetable mould 

 of decayed vegetables of all kinds, as cab- 

 bage leaves, haulm, weeds, &c. to which 

 may be added with much propriety, al- 

 though a fluid fubftance, the richefl of all, 

 and that in which is moft of the food of 

 vegetables, viz. the drainings of the dung- 

 hill. 



Manures 



* I have witnefled the aftonifhing effects of whin- 

 afh.es alone y in producing herbage in a five or fix fold 

 degree ; which was the more obvious, on account that 

 the field on which they were applied was much alike in 

 quality, (a flifF, wet, clayey loam), and the afhes were 

 applied partially. The effed was viiible for feveral 

 fucceflive years, Alfo, on the timber-trees, with which 

 the field was afterwards planted. 



