SITUATION, SOIL, ClIAP. 



and you will find it to stand a foot or fifteen inches higher 

 than the ground in the neighbourhood of it. Great care 

 should be taken to lay the strips out by straight lines. 

 The best way is to divide each end of the piece into rods 

 by sticking up sticks j and then to mark out the lines from 

 one end of the piece to the other. If only very common 

 care be taken, it is next to impossible not to have straight 

 lines. Equal care should be taken that the trenches them- 

 selves be of equal width, and that the lines which mark them 

 out be true and parallel $ but this is so easy a matter, 

 a matter that it would be a shame, indeed, for any one to 

 pretend difficulty in the performance of it. 



26. I have now to speak on the subject of manures as 

 adapted to a garden. Different plants require different 

 sorts of manure, and different quantities. It is certainly 

 true that dung is not the best sort of manure for a gar- 

 den : it may be mixed with other matter, and, if very well 

 rotted, and almost in an earthy state, it may not be amiss-, 

 but, if otherwise used, it certainly makes the garden ve- 

 getables coarse and gross compared to what they are 

 when raised with the aid of ashes, lime, chalk, rags, salt, 

 and composts. Besides, dung creates innumerable weeds : 

 it brings the seeds of the weeds along with it into the 

 garden, unless it have first been worked in a hot-bed, 

 the heat of which destroys the vegetative -quality of the 

 seeds. 



27. A great deal more is done by the fermentation of 

 manures than people generally imagine : the shovellings of 

 grass and turf from the sides of roads ; weeds or roots of 

 weeds raked off from afield ; these laid in a great heap and 



