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New Principles of Gardening. 
wo Load of good rotten Dung, one Load of Sand, two Load 
of the frit Spit of a rich Turf, Meadow, or Grafs-Ground, 
half a Load of Street-Dung, or Sea-Coal Afbes, with a fmall 
Quantity of Pzgeons Dung ; mix thefe proportionally together, 
and lay the Compoft in a Heap, obferving to turn it once a 
Month for the Summer Seafon, and in Winter it will be fit 
for Ufe. Pzgeous-Dung, caft thin upon cold Lands early in 
the Spring, is very helpful, efpecially for Corw and Meadow 
Lands: Five Load will dung an Acre. Sea and Drift Sands 
are very good Compoftts for C/ay Lands, making way for the 
Koots to thoot; as-alfo doth Sea-Coat Afbes. 
Rubbifb of Buildings is very good for the Roots of Trees . 
in cold Land; and Chalk, broken fimall, is a good Compott : 
The foft fat Chalk is the bett. 
Lime is another good Compoft for /uff Clays, its Heat 
caufing a Fume, and its Tendernefs «makes way tor the Roots, 
to fetch home their Nourifhment. The Lime ufed herein muft 
be flacked, and as its Heat is great at firft, therefore mutt 
be ufed with Difcretion. 
Cold and fballow Land is bef manured by the following 
Compoft: Take one Load of the watural Mold, two Loads 
of good rotten Horfe-Dung, one of Sand, or Sea Coal Afbes, 
and one of Chalk, which mix proportionally together, and ’tis 
fit for Ufe. : 
N. B. that the oftner Clay Lands are dunged, and the kf 
you lay on at a Time, is the detter; for Clay is of fuch a 
Seeds Nature, that it foon eats out the ‘Dung, and oftentimes 
binds it, fo that’tis of no Ufee 
And befides the aforefaid Compotts, | fff Lands and 
Clays may be improved by their being ridged carly in the 
Winter, by the Help of Frofts, Se. which will fo melorate 
the Ridges, that they will fall down like A thes. Befides, 
the Winter’s Air greatly fweetens the Soil, by exhaufting and 
difperfing the co/d and raw Vapours, which are fully expos’d to 
the Air, by its being thrown up in Ridges. To explain the 
Manner ot Ridging, Digging, and Trenching of Ground, is 
needlefs, fince "tis well known to every Basin, and Garde- 
ner’s Labourer. 
When 
