No. 5. 
1 Barrowful of goose dung, 
1 Ditto of sugar baker’s scum, 
1 Ditto of night soil, 
1 Ditto of fine strong yellow loam, 
4 1 Peck of sea sand. 
The above Compost, if you refer back, you 
will find is mixed up after the same manner as 
my No. 2. (save and except the goose dung 
being steeped in bullock’s blood) ; and by the 
same rule you can prepare a Compost after the 
manner of No. 1. (the blood excepted). 
Having given you already five receipts of 
Composts for growing very fine Auricula 
plants, where, on a calculation, only one-fourth 
loam is used, I now beg leave to introduce 
thi’ee more receipts, where I recommend one- 
third loam, and which I have practised with 
equal success. Some florists, I have been told, 
use no loam whatever ; this system I entirely 
disagree with. I once tried the experiment 
with the major part of my stock of Auriculas 
with only one-seventh part of loam j they grew 
very fine, and increased well, but bloomed 
with such very small debilitated pips : the 
cause of this I attributed to the Compost being 
