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in depth of dung, shaking it well as before. Then 

 proceed to trench the ground back, leaving the bottom 

 spit, that has been mixed with manure, unmolested. 

 Proceed as before, after the first spit and crumb have 

 been turned in ; mix the dung and soil well together 

 with a fork, which will be two-thirds of the trench 

 mixed, throwing on the top the remainder of the 

 earth unmixed with dung, until you come to the first 

 spit that has been mixed, and so continue until the 

 ground has been all trenched a second time ; then 

 throw in the earth laid out at the commencement of 

 the trenching, adding dung equal to that i"or the spit 

 just thrown in, and well mixing it with the soil. 

 There will now be an opening at the top, and one- 

 third of the earth left at the bottom. Tread the 

 whole surface over, and again lay on six inches in 

 depth of dung, forking up the hill, and keeping the 

 same opening. The whole mass of earth and dung 

 will then be thoroughly mixed from bottom to top, 

 and the opening will take the remainder of the earth 

 thrown out of the first trench. The work should be 

 done in dry (not frosty) weather — say in October. 

 The ground being thus prepared, throw it up in 

 rough spits, one spade deep, to be pulverized by the 

 frost against planting time. {Hort. Soc. Journ. ii. 

 39.) 



In laying out the beds they may be made two feet 

 wide, with a single row of plants down the centre, or 



