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Similar results were noticed, after an inundation of 

 the sea, in the garden of the late talented Richard 

 Gower, Esq. near Ipswich, in Suffolk, in Novemher, 

 1824. In this instance a portion of the garden "re- 

 mained 24 hours under the sea water. The aspara- 

 gus beds were materially improved in their produce. 

 The cherry trees, in the following year, actually pro- 

 duced a numerous crop of cherries, which tasted, how- 

 ever, so very salt that they could not be eaten, 

 although very fine in appearance. These trees all 

 died in the following year, 1826. 



The finest Asparagus, as we shall see in the next 

 section, is grown in the north of Spain, in places inten- 

 tionally and repeatedly covered by the flowing tide of 

 the sea. We have for many years, and with unfiling 

 benefit, sown salt thickly over our Asparagus beds, 

 and if any one complains of their own being unpro- 

 ductive, we always inquire if they have had any liquid 

 manure and salt ? We, therefore, agree with Dr. 

 Lindley, that undoubtedly salt is extremely beneficial 

 to Asparagus ; and that this plant will take a great 

 deal of it, and be much the better for it, is equally 

 certain. The same is true of sea-kale. Both are shore 

 plants, and are abundantly fed with salt at all seasons. 

 How much the largest quantity may be that they will 

 endure is uncertain, but we have seen a pound of 

 nitrate of soda given to one seakale-plant without the 

 slightest injury, and it would no doubt have found no 



