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centre outwards, nine inclies thick at least, at the stem or 

 centre, and five or six at the extremities ; by which means, 

 probably a space of six or eight feet out will be richly coated. 

 Or, if you can easily supply the materials, it would be better 

 to coat it ten or twelve feet out. Lastly, let the composition 

 be carefully pointed with the spade, between two and three 

 inches deep (which is the depth of ordinary hoeing, into the 

 former soil, round the plant. The sooner after the fall that 

 this work can be executed, the more confidently you may 

 rely on its effects during the following season. 



Into materials so compounded the minutest fibres, or 

 absorbents of the root, will enter with avidity, on the first 

 approach of the genial heat of spring ; or possibly the fine and 

 friable nature of the composition may occasion an anticipation 

 of the period. The season of vernation erelong will come 

 on, the leaves will be enlarged, and assume a far deeper and 

 more lively green. By midsummer, the tree will have shot 

 some inches ; and, by the following season, probably more 

 than a foot ; and it will continue to exhibit both established 

 health and progressive vigour. 



About every house in the country, there is a place appro- 

 priated for collecting the ashes ; I mean of course, coal-ashes. 

 To that deposit are usually added soot, sweepings of houses, 

 and other miscellaneous manures from the kitchen-court, all 

 well adapted to the purpose in question ; and the whole 

 should be exclusively reserved for trees by the judicious 

 planter. Great attention likewise should be bestowed, in 

 separating the cinders from the ashes, when the latter are 

 first thrown out, and in a dry state, as the cinders are of little 

 value, and injurious to the roots of plants. 



No one, who has not seen it, will easily believe the sur- 

 prising effect, which this compound produces on park-wood 

 some time removed, and to the most exposed situations, if it 

 chance to be in a backward condition, and by thus merely 

 adding to the surface, and thereby enlarging the pabulum 



