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— they require and can elaborate perfectly more 

 nourishment than weakly plants. 



Mr. Glen dinning, writing on this mode of fertilizing, 

 says, that in order that a stock of liquid manure may 

 be always on hand, it will be necessary to have at least 

 a couple of Tats, or tanks, each holding one, two, or 

 three hogsheads, according to the number of plants 

 cultivated ; and that the liquid may be in a fit condi- 

 tion for use, it will be important to renew the one 

 most exhausted every five or six weeks. Collect some 

 fresh sheep or deer's dung, and fill a two hogshead 

 vat about half full ; then add about a peck of unslaked 

 lime, and about the same quantity of soot ; then fill 

 the vat up with water ; this must be kept well stir- 

 red every other day for a month, when it will be fit 

 for use. When wanted, take an empty tub, and place a 

 small meshed sieve over it ; well stir the composition, 

 and then pass it through the sieve. The inspissated 

 quality of this manure will require some modification, 

 so as to enable it to escape freely through the tube of 

 a small watering-pot ; water must therefore be added, 

 until it is sufficiently attenuated to allow its so doing. 

 When thus diluted, great care ought to be taken, in 

 its application, not to let it fall on the leaves of the 

 plants ; to prevent this, some simple contrivance will 

 be necessary, such as a funnel soldered on the end of 

 a long tin tube, into which the liquid can be poured ; 

 or a tube made to screw on the spout of a small water- 



