14 THE CULTURE OF 



The Formation of an excellent Manure. * 



tion of these plants, being considered the 

 common cause of miscarriage in their crops 

 of fruit, to guard against it, is essential to 

 obtain good production ; for which purpose, 

 no manure can be better calculated than 

 those above-mentioned. As manures are 

 commonly applied to the use of the kit- 

 chen-garden, indiscriminately, it will be 

 easy to select and hold in reserve those 

 specified as peculiarly favourable to the 

 present business. 



'Green or unrotten stable manure, however 

 excellent for other purposes, ought never to 

 be applied to the cultivation of STRAWBER- 

 RIES; but in default of those we recom- 

 mend an equal quantity of entirely rotten 

 buttery, hot-bed manure employed in work- 

 ing frames the former spring, and the sweep- 

 ings of streets in paved towns, which, well 

 intermixed by repeated and regular turn- 

 ings, will afford a good substitute; laying it 



