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time to furnish the trees with this 

 antidote to insects. And the month 

 of March is perhaps better still. 



Putrefied sea weeds should, 1 

 think, be used for crops of cabba- 

 ges, and turnips, and for any other 

 crops which are much exposed (o 

 be injured by insects. 



One disadvantage attending the 

 business of farming in this country, 

 is, that our cold winters put an en- 

 tire stop to the fermentation, and 

 putrefaction of manures. This may 

 be in some measure obviated by 

 the use of rock weed, which is so 

 full of salt that it is not easily fro- 

 zen : Or if frozen, it is soon thaw^ 

 ed. I have been informed that 

 some have laid it under their dung- 

 hills by the sides of barns ; in which 

 situation it has not frozen ; but by 

 its fermentation has dissolved it- 

 self, and much of the dung that lay 

 upon it. There is undoubtedly a 

 great advantage in such a practice. 



Another advantage of this kind 

 of manure, which must not be for- 

 gotten, is, that it does not encour- 

 age the growth of weeds so much 

 as barn dung. It is certain it has 

 none of the seeds of weeds to pro- 

 pagate, as barn dung almost always 

 has. But some suppose that its salt 

 is destructive to many of the seeds 

 of the most tender kinds of plants; 

 if it be so, it is only when it is ap- 

 plied fresh from the sea, at the time 

 of sowing. But even this is doubt- 

 ful. 



This manure is represented in 

 the Complete Farmer to be twice 

 as valuable as dung, if cut from the 

 rocks at low water mark ; that a 

 dressing of it will last three years ; 

 and that fruit trees which have been 



barren are rendered fruitful by lay' 

 ing tliis manure about their roots. 



OSIEH, Salix, Sallozv, or JViKozo 

 Trees. According to Mr. Miller 

 there are fourteen species; the 

 twigs of some of which are much 

 used by basket makers in Europe. 



A sort of grey or brown willow 

 grows naturally in this country, in 

 low moist places. But it is only 

 a bushy shrub, of slow growth, and 

 has not that toughness in its shoots 

 for which some of the foreign wil- 

 lows are valued. 



Two sorts are propagated in this 

 country, which were l.)ro\]ght from 

 Europe. The young sh.oots of the 

 yellow sort have a golden colour ; 

 but the trunks of the trees are al- 

 most black. The green sort bids 

 fair to be more useful than the oth- 

 er. They will grow in almost any, 

 soil, and come to be large tiees; 

 but a moist soil suits them best. 

 I have known the green sort to 

 grow where the ground is some 

 part of the year flowed with wa- 

 ter, as in the borders of rivers and 

 ponds. 



It might be advisable for the 

 people in some parts of the coun- 

 try to propagate them for the sake 

 of the wood. I know of no other 

 trees that increase nearly so fast 

 as both these kinds do. A prodi- 

 gious quantity of wood might be 

 obtained from an acre planted with 

 them. In less than twenty years 

 they would be large trees. I have 

 known sets, or cuttings of the 

 smallest size, in ten years, grow to 

 the size of thirty inches round, or 

 ten inches diameter. 



The trees are easily propagated 

 by cuttings, or sets, either in spring 



