80 THE CULTURE OF 



Directions for forming the Compost. 



fault of which the same quantity of the dark- 

 est colour tree-soil, preferring that from the 

 more hard-wooded trees ; as oak, ash, elm, 

 or fruit-trees, such being most black and 

 soft ; or the same quantity of fully rotten 

 and decayed tree-leaves, recommended in 

 the culture of Raspberries ; all which may 

 be obtained at a trifling expence; when mix 

 the whole regularly together, laying it in 

 one narrow heap or ridge, about a yard high, 

 in any situation fully exposed to the sun 

 and air, there to remain six, nine, or twelve 

 months, as circumstances may admit; turn- 

 ing over the whole every two or three weeks 

 on the weather being favourable, that the 

 entire heap become thoroughly incorpo- 

 rated ; and the longer time the compost re- 

 mains in this state, the more advantageous 

 it will prove to the young plants and fruits. 



This compost being formed early in the 

 spring, and duly prepared by repeatedly 



