80 THE CULTURE OF 



Directions for forming the Compost. 



fault of which the same quantity of the dark- 

 est coloured tree-soil, preferring that from the 

 more hard- wooded trees; as oak, ash, elm, 

 or fruit-trees, such being most black and 

 soft; or the same quantity of fully rotten 

 and decayed tree-leaves, recommended in 

 the culture of Raspberries : all which may 

 be obtained at a trifling expence ; when mix 

 the whole regularly together, laying it in 

 one narrow heap or ridge, about a yard high, 

 in any situation fully exposed to the sun 

 and air, there to remain six, nine, or twelve 

 months, as circumstances may admit; turn- 

 ing over the whole every two or three weeks 

 on the weather being favourable, that the 

 entire heap become thoroughly incorporat- 

 ed; and the longer time the compost remains 

 in this state, the more advantageous it will 

 prove to the young plants and fruits. 



This compost being formed early in the 

 spring, and duly prepared by repeatedly 



