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(jirimes’s Privateer, 
Partington’s Sir Solomon, 
Butterwor til’s Lord Hood, 
Barlow’s King, 
Keynon’s Free Briton, 
Popplewell’s Conqueror. 
0/ Soils, the diffiercnt Sorts used, and their 
proportionate Q,uantities, with Directions for 
preparing them, S^c. 
This is the first and principal object, which 
ought to be most strictly attended to, it being 
the foundation of the whole : without proper 
Compost it is in vain to attempt to grow Auri- 
The trouble will be endless, and your 
and expense thrown away ; you cannot 
have the least chance of success without know- 
ing this. 1 write from practice not from theory; 
do assure my readers that all the rules, 
remarks, and observations in this small Trea- 
tise have arisen out of that practice. Good 
Compost, I again repeat it, is indispensibly 
requisite— it is the food, the veiy life, as it 
were, of the plant— without it you may almost 
