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an Y of Its Virtue. The proper Season therefore for this Work, is theBeginning of the Autumnal Equinox, and Wind westerly, both toPrepare and lay it on your Land; that, whether it be of wet or dryConsistence, it may have a gentle soaking into the Earth. As for freih‘Bung, strch as Sheep make when they are folded, it is good Advice tocover it with Mould as loon as possible, before the Sun have over-dry’dit: > for the Reaion before hinted; and by this early Application youWill find all that is stiff, and yet any ways contumacious, fubdu’d, andPerfectly prepafd before you turn it in. If you would meliorate Groundfor Fruit.trees, Roots and Esculents of the Orchards and Olitory-C ar den, be cautious that the hotter Dungs approach not immediate-ly to their Stems or Roots, without such a Circumposition of naturalMould as we have commended. But this is a Note for such as think fitto use the Soil steaming as it comes from the Heap; but if it be pre-pared as we have Ihew’d, there is no danger even of immediate Contact.

And the lame is to be obferv’d in Ablaqueation, where we find Causeto bare the Roots of Trees, and expose them to the Air for fresh Influ-encc, or to abate Exuberances; and that the Cavity be not fill’d all atonce (when we conceive the Roots have been sufficiently air’d) but gra-dually from Month to Month, as from OElober till the beginning ofMarch ; and upon other Occasions, leaving the Surface rough, ratherthan too compt and exquisitely trimm’d, if only you dig your Ground ;

Which once in two or three Years, four or five, (as you perceive yourTrees to require Culture) is advii'eable, and then to mingle the EarthWith a thorough soiling, and refrelh it with the impregnate Water ofyour Cistern, will exceedingly recover a worn-out Plantation. ThisIrrigation may also be yearly given to the Roots of your Fruit-treesabout June and July ; and the spreading of a little good Soil upon theSurface, and rough chopping it in with the Spade before Winter, isgood Husbandry, to walh in amongst the Roots, and to draw them up-wards, the shallow running of which is of so great Importance: But ofthis already.

And thus having lhew’d how to prepare, ripen, separate, and applythe several Composts (which for distinction fake we call the dry Mix-ture) ; I am next to describe the Liquid in many particulars, not muchdiffering from the former Process.

’Twixt East and North erect a Ter go la or Shed, so contriv’d with aCover, as to exclude or admit the Rain, Snows, and Weather at plea-sure; fink a Fit for the Cistern, as you did the former under it; castinto it all the acid Plants, bitter and rank Weeds that come in yourway, and grow in the neglected Corners of your Grounds; such as E-fula, Hemlock, Docks, Thistles, Fumary, Tobacco-stalks, Wormwood,Cabbage-leaves and Stalks , Aconites, the Leaves, Tralh and Offal, suchas Cattle will not touch; to these add Figeons and Foultry-dung, withtheir Quills and Feathers ; any fort of Ashes, Soot, Hogs-hair, Horn ,hard Bones, such as the Dogs have gnawn ; also Urine, Blood, Gar-bage, Fickle, Brine , Sea-water, (if conveniently to be had) otherwiseBond-water, to sprinkle it with, and keep it moist to accelerate Putre-faction ; but when all is well consum’d, forbear the pouring on of insi-pid Liquors, and thus leave it till it be dry; then air, mingle and workyour Composts as you were directed above, or boil it into Fetre, castingwhat you find not well digested into the Cistern again for anotherYear, andwith a little Addition it will give you half the Quantity of the former,.

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