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duced 16 tons of turnips, each ton costing 5s. lid. for manure. 
32 bushels of crushed Bones produced 15 tons of turnips, 
at a cost of 5s. 9d. for each ton of the produce. The Guano 
compost was laid in rows, covered with the plough, and the 
seed drilled in upon it. 
Mr. Skirving, of Walton Nursery, Liverpool, has used Guano 
extensively, and says, which is important for the farmer to 
know, that it is not a temporary stimulant; good crops having 
been obtained, without any manure whatever, from land where 
Guano had been used and good crops produced in the preceding 
year. He further states, “In the gardens and nursery grounds 
I have used it in a liquid state, and in that manner it has 
surpassed every manure yet discovered. Its effects on young 
fruit and forest trees, is wonderful ; also, upon hothouse and 
greenhouse plants of every description ; even the exotic heaths, 
to which manure of every kind has been considered injurious, 
seem to flourish in a manner beyond precedent, when watered 
with it. About 41bs. to 12 gallons of water are enough for the 
liquid. The water should stand twenty-four hours before use; 
and, when drawn off, 12 gallons more may be put to the same 
Guano.” From our own experience, we object to the propor- 
tion of Guano used in water by Mr. Skirving, for applying to 
plants in pots. Even if an ounce only be added to every gallon 
of water, we doubt the propriety of using it oftener than once a 
week. We still require further experience to guide us in the 
use of this powerful ingredient; it will, however, have been col- 
lected from our own experiments, stated in page 245, that 
caution in its application is necessary. That uniformity of 
strength may be obtained, any undissolved Guano remaining at 
the bottom of a liquid cask, should always be cleaned out, for 
garden use, and the requisite proportions again mixed. 
In a preceding page we mentioned the luxuriant growth of 
strawberry plants, from the use of Guano ; we can now state the 
effect on the crop of fruit. Its application to AVilliams’s Vigor- 
nian, occasioned too much foliage, and the plants appeared as 
if drawn up under the shade of trees. We fell into the usual 
error of over-dosing them, and the crop was not improved. The 
other variety of strawberry on which it was tried, was Myatt’s 
Pine; here the result was different; the plants as.sumed no 
more than a healthy luxuriance, and the crop was a very 
