ON ASPARAGUS. 



LIGHT peat-mould that lays at top and 

 is very foft ; if it is difficult to get, as it 

 Is in many places, the bottom of wood- 

 flacks, or the places in woods where 

 much leaves and {ticks have rotted, the 

 light mould to be got there will do. Light 

 rich loam from a common pafture. Fine 

 rotten dung that has laid two years, and 

 has been turned feveral times, and reduced 

 to a fine mould. Sharp fand from a pit, 

 or river-ride, which is better. Thefe are 

 the ingredients. 



THE quantities of each, to make a good 

 compofition, are two loads of fludge, one 

 load of foft peat-mould, a load of loam, 

 two loads of rotten dung, and two loads 

 of marp fand. This is the proportion ; 

 the quantity mud: be according to the 

 number of rows of afparagus to be fown. 

 If the ground, where the feminary is to 

 be made, is of a light nature, there fhouJd 

 be two loads of loam and one of fand ; but 

 then there muft be more of the natural 

 earth and more rotten dung laid in the 

 bottom. 



