CHAP. II. 1 
MANURES. 
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but their component parts should be sepa¬ 
rated by fermentation before they are applied 
as a manure to growing plants. Vegetable 
mould (that is* leaves thoroughly decayed 
and mixed with a little rich loam) is admir¬ 
ably adapted for manuring the finer kinds of 
flowers, and plants in pots. There are many 
other kinds of manure used in gardens occa¬ 
sionally; such as the dung of pigs, rabbits 
and poultry, grass mown from lawns, parings 
of leather, horn shavings, bones, the sweeping 
of streets, the emptying of privies, cess-pools, 
and sewers, the clipping of hedges and prun¬ 
ing of trees, weeds, the refuse of vegetables, 
pea halm, &c. All these should be fermented, 
and applied, in the same manner as the com¬ 
mon kinds of manure. 
The following is a summary of the general 
rules to be observed in manuring and improving 
soils: — Never to use animal manure and 
quick-lime together, as the one will destroy 
the other. To use lime as a manure only in 
very sandy or peaty soils, or in soils abound¬ 
ing with sulphate of iron. To remember 
that rotten manure is considered to give so¬ 
lidity; and that unfermented manure, buried 
