16 THE CULTURE OF 



How to render light Soils serviceable. 



trees of every description, from any conti- 

 guous plantation ; which, on being collected 

 together by rakes, or other implements, im- 

 mediately after their fall in the autumn, and 

 laid in large heaps in any obscure situation, 

 by taking heat from the repeated heavy rains 

 and falling wet throughout the winter, and 

 being occasionally turned over during the 

 spring and summer, by the following au- 

 tumn will afford a very useful and ample 

 supply. 



These light soils well intermixed, and tho- 

 roughly incorporated with a proportionable 

 quantity of neat's, cow's, or swine's dung, 

 will prove extremely serviceable in whatever 

 form they may be applied. 



Compost. 



THE proportion of the articles we recom- 

 mend as proper and necessary to form a 



