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Tire pleasing- consideration of employment af- 

 forded to women and children, will be quite suffi- 

 cient to overbalance in my mind, any regret which 

 I mig-hl otherwise feel for the disappointment which 

 you may experience on the score of profit. 



My already expressed dislike to smoking- and snuff 

 taking-, combined with my individual loss, may, per- 

 haps, })e supposed in in.'.ae dpg:ree, to have blinded 

 my judgment in the present matter; this I will not 

 acknowledge to be the case. My opinion has been 

 formed from a very dispassionate consideration of 

 the subject in all its bearings. Yet that I detest 

 smoking is most true ; so much so, that if Mrs. 



Doyle were to put a pipe into her mouth 



Having- hinted thus far, and given fair notice and 

 warning-, I shall conclude with the necessaiy direc- 

 tions for raising this abominable plant. 



In the midtlle of March let some fresh dung-, from 

 the stable and cow-house, in the ratio of four of the 

 former to one of the latter, be well tossed up toge- 

 ther ; * after an interval of a week let this mixed 

 dung be again shaken and laid in a bed as if for 

 cucumbers, to the height of three feet, which will 

 allow sufficiently for its subsequent sinking ; when 

 this is done place boards on the sides of this lied, 

 secured together like a cucumber frame, the top of 

 which you can cover with cheap cahco tacked to a 

 lig-ht frame or frames, moveable at pleasure either to 

 exclude frost or to regulate the temperature of the 

 bed, the heat of which, if necessary, can be renewed 

 by cutting off the portion which projects beyond the 

 frame and supplying- its room -with fresh dung, (gar- 

 deners term this process lining) which will commu- 

 nicate the desired warmth. Three quarters of an 



* Tliis managemetit keeps up tlie beat for a loneer time 

 than if unmixed stable dung were thrown at once into a bed 

 from the stalile ; such dung by its sudden and violent heat 

 would probably destroy the seed or scorch the young plants ; 

 this heat would also depai-t as suddenly as it came ou. 



