The shrubby kinds will grow well in any rich soil; loam and decayed leaves form a good compost for them.

Scrape the gum off, wash the place thoroughly with clear water, and apply a compost of horse-dung, clay, and tar.

His dream confirm'd his thought: with troubled look Straight to the western gate his way he took: There, as his dream foretold, a cart he found, That carried compost forth to dung the ground.

Re-pot them in the spring, trimming the branches and roots, and making a compost for them of one-half mellow yellow loam, one quarter leaf-mould, and one quarter old manure.

April 14, 1760, he writes in his diary: "Mixed my composts in a box with the apartments in the following manner, viz.

At this consultation it was decided that it would be better to finish the picking up of a considerable plot of ground, one of at least half an acre in extent, that was already commenced, within the crater, scatter their compost over it, and spade all up together, and plant, mixing in as much of the sea-weed as they could conveniently spade under.