FLORICULTURAL (ECONOMICS. 
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.hereby get a manure of such a far more concentrated description as to render his 
)lants infinitely better than they could be by any amount of a poorer material 
vhich he could otherwise apply : for, where a limited compass does not admit of 
k large application of manure in point of bulk — and such is unavoidably the case, 
or most part, in plant cultivation — -it is of prime moment to get a more concen- 
rated form, and yet not one which is too powerful, or which does not combine 
lie mechanical with the chemical uses. 
We just allude, in passing, to the last particulars here mentioned, because one 
jf the chief errors in respect to manures, at the present time, is the forgetfulness 
hat their value must be partly of a mechanical nature. In refined processes, such 
is the pot and border culture of flowers, this is especially true. Manures, 
.herefore, which do not tend to keep the soil more open and light than it would 
therwise be, are of less value than those which accomplish this object. And thus 
i will be seen that the old-fashioned stable dung possesses even a more valid 
ecommendation than its being little liable to be adulterated. 
But another way in which manure may be economized, and its best constituents 
aved from waste, is by careful expedients for collecting all the fluid which soaks 
way from manure heaps, from beds of fermenting matter, or from dung linings, 
khis is seriously neglected in the majority of gardens. If only for cleanliness, 
very frame-ground or compost-yard ought to be most thoroughly drained, and all 
he superfluous fluid conducted into an underground cistern, which, both for 
onvenience and for the prevention of exhalations, should be well covered in. In 
his receptacle, more of the real essence of the manure would be collected 
han is ultimately obtained from the whole of the manuring substance itself. 
Although we have above spoken of the desirableness of consulting mechanical 
gency in selecting manure, yet, in flower cultivation, after the substance intended 
or manure has been applied, and in part exhausted by the plant, it is often 
xtremely necessary to administer fresh nutriment ; and as this can alone be done 
y mulchings or by fluids, the former expedient being too unsightly, the latter must 
if necessity be adopted. 
Liquid manures are always of great use to the plant-grower, on account 
f their immediate effect ; since, if substances be employed, their qualities have to 
e taken up by the fluids applied, and so presented to the plant, whereas a liquid 
P already in a fit state for its reception, and finds its way at once to the spongy 
’arts of the roots. 
In the husbanding, then, of the true virtue of manure by keeping it covered 
ver, and in appropriating all the powerful fluid which flows from it in whatever 
osition, we conceive that the culturist will be doing himself a most inestimable 
3rvice, and saving much expense, besides gaining his ends in a far better manner, 
hat manure is indispensable to first-rate culture, we think is readily demonstrable, 
ad we may avow our conviction that it will rapidly become a staple article in plant 
rowing of almost every description. 
