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sand is which we employ, the more soft will the compost prove 
which we form with it; tending to promote expansion in the 
heavier soils. Where none other than white sand, which 
is usually coarse, can be obtained, small quantities of the finer 
])arts of it can be sifted out with a fine sieve or washed. Lit- 
tle argument can, however, be necessary to convince the unpre- 
judiced florist, gardener, or amateur, of the general utility of 
suitable sand, when intermixed with the more cold and heavier 
soils; and thereby rendering them open and porous, and capa- 
ble of discharging all copious falls of rain, snow, &c.; which 
tend to overcharge those soils which are adhesive with an un- 
due proportion of moisture, and thereby chill and starve the 
stock of plants and flowers upon them. 
IGO Ax Excellent Compost. This is applicable to superior 
fibrous-rooted perennial, herbaceous plants, in the open ground ; 
as well as to the common hardy and greenhouse plants. Of the 
efficacy as a general manure of the blood of bullocks or other 
animals, farmers and gardeners who have habitually employed 
the refuse of slaughter-houses will be able to afford testimony; 
and there is no method by which it can be better applied, in the 
culture of any crop, than as compost; as, by repeatedly turning 
it over, it will mix and incorporate most readily with the earth. 
Blood is an ingredient to be readily and cheaply procured in 
most situations; anil it may be applied warm or cold, fresh or 
stale, as may best suit the convenience of the florist: it may be 
also kept a length of time without injury or annoyance when 
occasion does not retjuire its immediate use. Where blood can- 
not be procured in the immediate neighbourhood, the best mode 
of conveying it from a distance will be in small casks, as is 
adopted by the sugar-bakers in London ; who thus receive their 
supplies from the principal slaughter-houses, from whence it 
may be procured at a trivial expense. In general it will, how- 
ever, be most convenient and efficient to use it in a compost. 
To form a superior compost, prepare the following ingredients, 
Hazle-loam earth, from the richest pasture ground; bog soil, 
from meadow or other lowlands; hot-bed stable manure fully rot- 
ted down ; and the finest white sand ; mixing them in equal quan- 
tities. On first putting the above together, add bullocks or other 
blood, in the proportion of one gallon to two wheelbarrows’ full 
of compost. That the whole may be more completely incorpo- 
1G9 AT7CTAJUUU. lOO, Haynes on Soils aoit Composts. 
