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the texture of the petals firmer and stronger; their 

 state and condition will be such as to extort from the 

 enraptured florist,, the following emphatical expres- 

 sion of delight : 



1 Here's beauty I Here's cloth, colour, and gold for you ! c 



An expression which once I heard,, with no small 

 pleasure, acompanied with the most extravagant ges- 

 ticulation of body. 



COMMON GARDEN MANURE. 



MANURE for the garden is generally confined to 

 horse-dung and straw-litter, rotted by frequent turn- 

 ing and working, which excites fermentation, and 

 hastens its decay; this operation is too frequently 

 performed in situations where the juices or fluids that 

 come from it run away and are lost, by which means 

 the saline and other nutritious qualities are reduced, 

 and the strength and efficacy of the whole greatly 

 impaired. The carbonaceous principle, likewise, 

 which is produced by fermentation occasioned by the 

 decomposition and decay of all vegetable substances, 



