10 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. 



will find it too hot to be endured. In a few days the 

 heat will decline, and you will perceive the heap sink. 

 Let it remain a week after this, and then turn it very 

 carefully. This will mix the whole well together. You 

 will find tite weeds and g:\ass in a putrid state. Another 

 heating will take place, but less furious than the former. 

 Turn h a second time in seven days: and a third time 

 in seven days more. And by this time you will have 

 forty cart loads of manure, equal in strength to twenty 

 of yard dung, and a vast deal better for a garden, or in- 

 deed, for any other land. It is not expensive to obtain 

 this sort of manure ; and such a heap, or part of such a 

 heap, might at all times be ready for the use of the gap- 

 den. When such a heap is once formed, some ashes. 

 fish shells or bones, reduced to powder, or other enliven- 

 ing matter, may be added to it and mixed well with 

 it; and thus will a store be always at hand for any 

 part of the garden that might want it. 



LAYING-OUT. 



Tlie laying-out of a garden consists in the division of 

 it into several parts, and in the allotting of those severai 

 parts to the several purposes for which a garden is made. 

 These parts consist of walks, paths, plats, borders, and 

 a hot-bed ground. 



HOT-BEDS 



Dung of horses, cattle, sheep or pigs, is used to make 

 the bed of. Eiilicr may be made to do, with a greater 

 or'less dejrree of care and trouble; but, the best possible 

 thing is (lung from the stable, taken away before it has 

 been rotted, short and louij promiscuously, but rather 

 long than short. If there be a large proportion of short, 

 it may hnve anv litter added to it; any l)roken straw or 

 hay, or corn stalks, in order to njake a due mixture of 

 long and short. Shake every fork full well to pieces, and 



