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horse at Newmarket, but would be considered 
a bad name for florist. Although you have 
the best receipts in the world, if your Com- 
post is not stirred and turned over frequently, 
I do not promise you success ; it is fi’om this 
that it becomes sweet and in good condition 
for use ; it will be the means of throwing bril- 
liant colours into the pips, as well as giving 
vigour and life to the plants; as much so as fine 
old Port or rich Madeira wine does to the 
human constitution. 
Frost, sun, and air, are of infinite utility to 
Compost ; but by many the intense heat of the 
sun is thought to destroy the rich qualities of 
the earth ; this is a mistaken notion, it acts 
quite the reverse, and the Compost receives 
great benefit from it. 
There may be no impropriety in my hinting 
here, that a load from the slaughter-house, 
consisting of blood and manure, can always be 
procured in London, Birmingham, Bristol, or 
other very lai’ge towns, at a trifling expense ; 
so that any person situated near to those places 
will find it to answer his purpose well, as the 
blood, when rotted down with other manure, 
does wonders beyond all conception, and con- 
stitutes a most excellent ynundungus. 
i shall now close my remarks on soil, and pro- 
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