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GENERAL REMARKS. 
of different dimensions. The last line, for instance, shows 
that, if forty-eight trees be planted on an acre, each thirty 
feet apart, there may be forty-eight beds of thirty feet square, 
or thirty bt Is of forty-eight feet square, formed from the 
same quantify of land. An allowance of about one-eighth 
must, however, be made from the above calculation for walks 
and paths. 
The table may also serve to show the gardener how to 
dispose of any given quantity of manure, that may be allotted 
for an acre of ground. If, for instance, it requires three 
hundred and two trees to plant an acre when placed twelve 
feet from each other, it will require as many heaps of manure 
to cover the same quantity of ground, if dropped the same 
distance apart. It therefore follows, that if one hundred 
loads be allowed to the acre, each load must be divided into 
three heaps. If seventy-five loads only be allowed, every 
load must be divided into four heaps, and so on in proportion 
to the quantity allowed. But if the gardener should choose 
to drop his heaps five paces or fifteen feet apart, he may 
make such distribution of his loads as to have one hundred 
and ninety-three heaps on the acre of land ; in which case 
by dividing each load into four heaps, he will require only 
forty-eight loads to cover the acre, and he may decrease the 
quantity still more, by allowing greater distances from heap 
to heap, or by dividing his loads into smaller proportions, so 
as to accommodate himself to whatever quantity of manure 
he may allot to any given quantity of ground. 
As it may not be generally known that some kinds of 
seed are apt to lose their vegetative qualities much sooner 
than others, the following hints are subjoined as some rule for 
the gardener’s government, provided the seed is carefully 
preseived, and not exposed to excess of heat, air, or damp 
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