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MANTJEES. 



to the acre, the ground is again ploughed, and then 

 Spinach may be put in, giving in addition a dressing 

 of three or four hundi-ed pounds to the acre of finely- 



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ground bone or superphosphate of lime. This brings 

 us to the important subject of 



Manuees. — 'No matter how favorable the loca- 

 tion, nor what the character of the soil may be, he 

 tills to great disadvantage who fails to make a lib- 

 eral annual application of manures. The question 

 for the gardener is. How much manure can I use 

 with increased profit ? and, if he is alive to his o-wn 

 interest, he will soon discover that the quantity that 

 can be so applied to an acre is large. 



Of the bulky manures, that from stables where 



