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one and two pounds each ; the berries were large, and 

 well colored. The second border was made a few years 

 after the first ; the manures used were similar to the 

 above ; but, instead of stones, the bottom of the border 

 was paved with bones, and well covered with them ; the 

 vines have always done well, and ripened good crops of 

 fine fruit. The third border was paved, at the bottom, 

 with stones, as whole bones could not be obtained. The 

 manures, in this boi-der, were entirely from the barn- 

 yard, from horses and oxen ; it was very coarse, having 

 much litter and old (Indian) cornstalks in it ; the soil 

 was the garden loam, which had been freely manured 

 with barn-yard material; the proportion of manure 

 added was one half, certainly, and perhaps rather more. 

 In this border, the vines have made the most rapid growth 

 of any that I have planted : but the fruit produced 

 therein, although very fair and well-colored, is not large, 

 the berries measuring two and a half to three and a half 

 inches round, for Hamburghs ; while, in the houses, 

 where bones and slaughter-house manures, or the car- 

 casses of animals are added to the compost, the berries 

 measure from three to four inches in circumference. 



By far the largest part of my borders were made, since 

 the above, in 1843.. §laughter-house manures, bones, the 

 carcasses of animals, old mortar and bricks, oyster-shells, 

 horse and cow manure, old leather and loam, were added 

 in considerable quantities. I have not discovered any 

 reason for wishing to change the compost. At the end 

 of the house, in a space used for the furnace, no manure 

 was added on the outside, as the street of the city was 

 here. The soil was a good yellow loam, and, on the street , 



