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thin and of too light a texture, and was veiy 
glad to go back to my old system of one-fourth, 
or one-third part of fine strong yellow loam, 
for without a proportionate quantity of loam, 
you have no fixed substance of solid earth, with- 
out which, in my opinion, your plants cannot 
grow well or produce fine large bold flowers. 
No. 6. 
2 Barrowsfiil of goose dung, 
2 Ditto of sugar-baker’s scum, 
2 Ditto of cow dung, 
3 Ditto of fine strong yellow loam, 
9 2f Pecks of sea sand. 
On a calculation it is 2 quarts of sand to a 
barrowful. 
No. 7. 
2 Barrowsful of night soil, 
2 Ditto of sugar-baker’s scum, 
2 Ditto of cow dung, 
3 Ditto of fine strong yellow loam, 
9 2| Pecks of sea sand. 
This Compost, No. 7* is very easy to be ob-* 
tained at a trifling expense by the London 
florists. 
