6 On the Employment of Salt as a Manure. 



request to do this each of the gardeners in that part of the 

 country, and in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, that we called 

 on in October last. We here call upon them to lend their aid 

 in discovering the value of salt in gardening, and shall confide 

 in their doing so ; and as they are all readers of this Maga- 

 zine, we shall give them no farther notice, but only request 

 that they will severally communicate the result of their trials 

 on or before the 1st of January 1828, so that they may be 

 published on the 1st of April following. To prevent mistakes 

 or excuses, the following are the names of the proposed expe- 

 rimenters in the order in which we called at their gardens : — 



Mr. Thompson, \ Wen tworth House. 



Mr. Cooper, J 



Mr. M'Ewen, Bretton Hall. 



Mr. Harrison, Wortley Hall, and such of his sons as have an opportunity. 



Mr. Aeon, Worksop Manor. 



Mr. Thompson, Welbeck. 



Mr. Wykes, Clumber Park. 



Mr. Bennet, Thoresby Park. 



The Manager who may be appointed to the Duke of Portland's farms in 



Clipstone Park. (When we called there on the 1 5th of October, the 



late manager had been buried that morning.) 

 Mr. Johnstone, Newstead Abbey. 

 Mr.Haythorn, { Wollaton Hall 

 Mr. Foy, 5 



Mr.Chatfield, ) „ . 



Mr. J J 



Mr. Lunn, Alton Abbey. 

 Mr. Buchan, Blythfield. 

 Mr. Taylor, Ingestrie. 

 Mr. M'Murtrie, Shugborough. 



We should wish all the above, and as many other gardeners 

 and farmers in every part of the country as are friends to their 

 own art, to try common salt as a top dressing to the common 

 or annual kitchen and field crops ; to grass and to asparagus, 

 sea-kale, rhubarb, and other perennial crops, and on the soil 

 about trees and shrubs. Its effects on perennials and orna- 

 mental plants will probably not be ascertained properly before 

 two or three years, and therefore we shall not expect the re- 

 sult of experiments as to them till January 1829 or 1830. In 

 order to measure the quantity of salt used, we would recom- 

 mend every person intending to try an experiment, to cut a 

 hole in a turnip or a potatoe, or in wood, which will hold 

 exactly a cubic inch, and we think an inch of common salt to 

 a square yard for broad cast crops, or to two lineal yards of 

 those sown in rows, would be a very good proportion for ex- 

 periment. This would also enable gardeners to try a number of 



