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the same to him, whether he snuffed up the odour 

 of roses, or the less inviting fragrance of animal 

 ordure; it was he that first applied sugar-bakers' 

 scum as a surface dressing to flowers, having wit- 

 nessed its surprising effect upon the land of a neigh- 

 bour of his, a sugar-refiner from Goodman's Fields ; 

 and he also had the credit of persuading and con- 

 vincing Sir Somebody Tressilian or Trevannian, a 

 Cornish Baronet, that old rags and old wigs, which 

 contained so much grease and human fat, were a 

 much warmer and richer manure for his land, than 

 the oily carcasses of his pilchards ; and it is further 

 said, that Kit, as agent or factor, in one week bought 

 up more than two thousand wigs in the neighbour- 

 hood of that celebrated mart Rosemary Lane, which 

 were sent down to try the experiment. Be not im- 

 patient, courteous reader, to get rid of poor Nunn ; 

 remember he was a brother florist, and belonged to 

 the fancy wait till you learn the result of one of 

 his own experiments, and take this moral with it, 

 though there be no fable here : ( Other men's mis- 

 haps should make us wary.' 



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