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almost useless if preserved until the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen,
spring; if, however, neglected until that with a small addition of saline matters,
season, the earlier it is inserted the The general consideration o\' Mamtres
better.
Mode of Cultivation.—Sow moderately
thin, in drills a foot asunder, and
half an inch deep. When arrived at a
will be found under that title, and other
relative infurination under the heads
Dung and Vegetable Matters, and in
this place I shall confine my attention to
height of live or six inches, the plants some of the most available of strictly
must be thinned, and those removed
transplanted, to a distance of at least
two feet and a half from each other,
animal matters. See also the article
Bones.
Blubber, or fat of the whale, contains
either in a bed, or on the sides of ditches, train oil, composed of
&c. Water iii abundance must be given
at the time of removal, as well as until
they are established ; but it is better
to discontinue it during their further
Carbon .... 6S.S7
Hydrogen . . . 16.10
Oxygen .... 15.03
with a little animal skin and muscle.
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growth, unless the application is regular Forty gallons of train oil, mixed with
and frequent. In the IMay, or early 120 bushels
June of the second year, they flower, twenty-three
of screened soil, grew
tons of turnips per acre,
when they must be cut down, which on a soil where forty bushels of l)ones
causes them to sprout again, and if this broken small, and eighty bushels of
is carefully attended to, they will con- burnt earth, produced only twenty-one
tinue for three or four years; but if per- tons.
mitted to run to seed, they perish soon Fish generally, such as sprats, her-
after.
Seed.—A little seed should be saved
rings, pilchards, five-fingers, and shellfish,
owe their powerful fertilizing qualiannually,
as a resource in case of any lies not only to the oil they contain, but
accidental destruction of the crop. also to the phosphate of litne in their
ANGK.LICA-TREE, Aralia spinosa. bones. From twenty-five to forty-five
bushels per acre are the extreme quan-
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ANGEONIA salicdriafolia. Stove
herbaceous. Cuttings. Sandy rich loam.
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titles to be applied broad-cast, but if in
ANGIANTHUS aureus. Green-house the drills, with the crop sixteen bushels
herbaceous. Division. Loam and peat. are ample. Th(?y are beneficial to all
ANGLE-SHADES MOTH. SeePho- the gardener's crops, but especially to
logophera.
ANGOPHORA. Two species. Green-
asparagus, parsnips, carrots, beets, onions,
and beans. Shell-fish should be
house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Peat, broken before being applied.
Band, and loam.
Blood is a very rich manure, and has
ANGR.^CUM. Nine species. Stove been used with especial benefit to vines,
epiphytes. Cuttings. Wood, or moss and other fruit trees. The blood of the
and potsherds, in baskets.
ANGUILLARIA. Three species.
ox contains about eighty per cent, of
water, and twenty per cent, solid mat-
Half-hardy herbaceous. Offsets. Sandy ter. The latter contains in 100 parts
peat.
ANGURIA. Four species. Stove
when dried,
Carbon .... 51.950
evergreen climbers. Division. Loam Hydrogen . . . 7.165
and peat.
ANIA &/rorn«s. Stove epiphyte. Offsets.
Peat and potsherds.
ANIGOZANTHOS. Three species. The
Azofe . . . . 17.172
Oxygen. . . . 19.295
Ashes .... 4.418
ashes contain various salts, as
Green-house herbaceous. Division. chloride of sodium, (common salt,)
Sandy peat,
AXI.MAL MATTERS, without any
phosphate of lime, with a little oxide of
iron. Sugar-bakeys skimmings owe
exception, are beneficial as manures, for their chief fertilizing qualities to the
they all yield during putrefaction gases blood used in clarifying the sugar, and
and soluble substances that are imbibed which is combined with vegetable albugreedily
by the roots of plants. That men and extractive,
this is the case affords no cause for won- Woollen Rngs, cut into very small
dcr, because animal matters and vege- pieces, are a good manure, decomposing
table matters are alike compounded of, slowly, and benefiting the second as