. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 516 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. by decay, And separation of the dust by sifting with new tan. In this way the bark-bed is obliged to be stirred, turned, refreshed, or even renewed several times a year, so as to produce and retain at all times a bott
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 516 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. by decay, And separation of the dust by sifting with new tan. In this way the bark-bed is obliged to be stirred, turned, refreshed, or even renewed several times a year, so as to produce and retain at all times a bottom heat of from 15 to 85 degrees in each of the three departments of pine culture. These operations being common, we have placed a summary of management under the head of General Directions for the Bark-pit, at the end of this section. (See Subsect. 8.) 2708. Dung-heat. Pines are grown to the greatest perfection by many gardeners with- out either bark or fire heat simply by the use of dung. A frame double the usual depth and also about a third part broader than the common cucumber frames, is placed on a bed of dung, or of dung and tan, or dung and ashes, or even dung and faggots mixed or in alternate layers. This bed of itself supplies heat for a while, and when it begins to be exhausted, linings are applied in the usual way, and continued for a year or more, reviv- ing and renewing them as may become requisite, till the bottom bed becomes too solid for the ready admission of heat. The frame and pots are then removed to a prepared bed, and this old bottom taken away, or mixed up with fresh materials. In this way, as Weeks observes, every one that can procure stable-dung may grow pines. In a tract On the Ananas and on Melons, by A. Taylor, printed in 1769, the author tells us that he both rears and fruits pines in a pit formed of boards or of brick-work three feet deep, and of any convenient length and width; and on the walls or boards which enclose the tan, he places a frame t
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