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Laftly, let me obferve, that the amazing negleft in not 

 planting ofier grounds for making bafkets and ("mail hoops, is 

 unpardonable throughout the kingdom, they no where thrive 

 better; a fmall one I planted in the county of Corke grew fix 

 feet the fiitl year, yet at that port there is a considerable im- 

 portation of them from Portugal. 



SECTION XI. 



Manure s-~- Wafte Lands. 



THE manure commonly ufed in Ireland is lime; inexhauftible 

 quarries of the fined limeftone are found in mod parts of 

 that ifland, with either turf, or culm at a moderate price to 

 burn it. To do the gentlemen of that country juftice, they 

 underfhnd this branch ofhufbdndry very well, and practice it 

 with uncommon fpirit. Their kilns are the bed I have any 

 where feen, and great numbers are kept burning the whole year 

 through, without a thought ofdoppingon account of the winter. 

 Their draw kilns burn up to forty barrels a day ; and what they 

 call French kilns, which burn the done without breaking, have 

 been made even to five thoufand barrels in a kiln. Mr. Leflie 

 laying ten thoufand barrels on his land in one year, and Mr. 

 Aldworth as much, are indances which I never heard equalled. 

 The following table will {hew the general praftice. 



