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plantation ; they are a number of single ferred of a moderate size ; but culinary
trees. A thick grove is not, indeed, ex- vegetables should be grown rapidly,
posed to this mischief, and certain situ- and of as gigantic a size as may be.
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ations may recommend different shapes G [
and different greens for their effects up- Cricket.
on the surface. The eye, attracted into
the depth of the grove, passes by little
circumstances at the entrance; even
varieties in the form of the line do not
always engage the attention, they are
not so apparent as in a continued tliicket,
and are scarcely seen if they are not
considerable.
R Y L L T A L P A . See Mole-
GUAIACUM. Three species. Stove
evergreen trees. Ripe cuttings. Rich
loam.
GUANO. This now celebrated manure
has been known as the chief fertilizer
employed by the Peruvians,
almost as long as that part of the New
World has been recognized by geo-
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"But the surface and the outline are not graphers. Its name, in the language of
the only circumstances to be attended that country, signifies the manure—and
to. Though a grove be beautiful as an it merits such distinction, as being one
object, it is, besides, delightful as a of the most powerful assistants to vege-
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spot to walk or to sit in ; and the choice tation which can be applied to the soil,
and the disposition of the trees for Guano is not peculiar to Peru, but is
effect within are therefore a principal found in immense beds upon many rocks
consideration. Mere irregularity alone and islands of the Atlantic, being the
will not please, strict order is there excrements of the marine birds frcmore
agreeable than absolute confusion, quenting those ocean solitudes. It has
and some meaning better than none. been lately analyzed by Dr. Ure, who
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A regular plantation has a degree of reports it as composed of the following
proportional constituents:
beauty; but it gives no satisfaction, because
we know that the same number
of trees might be more beautifully arranged.
A disposition, however, in
which the lines only are broken, without
varying the distances, is less natural
than any ; for though we cannot find
straight lines in a forest, we are habitu-
ated to them in the hedge-rows of fields
but neither in wild nor in cultivated
nature do we ever see trees equidistant
from each other; that regularity belongs
to art alone. The distances, therefore,
should be strikingly different; the
trees should gather into groups, or stand
in various irregular lines, and describe
several figures ; the intervals between
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Azotized organic matter,"
including urate of ammonia,
and capable of
affording from 8 to 17 >50.0
per cent, of ammonia I
by slow decomposition |
in the soil ... .J
Water
Phosphate of lime . .
Ammonia, phosphate of"")
magnesia, phosphate of
11.0
25.0
ammonia, and oxalate I .-«
of ammonia, contain- ,'
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ing from 4 to 9 per cent. |
of ammonia J
Siliceous matter ... 1.0
them should be contrasted both in shape This analysis explains the source from
and in dimensions whence failure has been derived to
; a large space should
in some places be quite open, in others many who have tried it. It is the most
the trees should be so close together as violently stimulating of all the known
hardly to leave a passage between them ; natural manures, and they have applied
and in others as far apart as the con- it too abundantly. This is shown by
nexion will allow. In the forms and the experiments of Mr. Maund. When
the varieties of these groups, these applied to Strawberries once a week in
lines, and these openings, principally a liquid state, (four ounces to a gallon,)
consists the interior beauty of a grove."
— Whateley.
it made them very vigorous and pro-
GROWTH.
ductive; but sprinkled upon some young
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It may be taken as a seedlings of the same fruit it killed them.
universal maxim in gardening, that slow Two ounces per yard, (five cwt. per
growth and smallness of size increases acre,) were sprinkled over Onions, and
the intensity of flavour, and that rapidity they doubled the untreated in size.
of growth and increase of size render Potatoes manured with one ounce and a
flavour more mild. Fruit, therefore, half per yard, were rendered much
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should be ripened slowly, and be pre- 1 more
luxuriant than others having no