...quantity of gait that most other vegetables will. Fern is also an excellent manure for potatoes ; for, if buried beneath their roots, it never fails to produce a good crop. Its astringency is so great that it is used in many places abroad, in dressing and preparing kid and...

...carnations, &c. The whole plant is useful for several purposes. Lightfoot tells us that, if cut while green and left to rot upon the ground, it is a good improver of land : it is an excellent manure for potatoes, and if buried beneath their roots, it never fails to...

...quantity of salt that most other vegetables will. " Fern is also an excellent manure for Potatoes ; for, if buried beneath their roots, it never fails to produce a good crop. " Its use as a good litter in the stable and the fold is taown to every farmer ; as, also, that it...

...which are afterwards heated in the fire, and used to make lye for scouring linen. Lightfoot says, " It is an excellent manure for potatoes, and if buried beneath their roots, never fails to produce a good crop." Where coal is scarce, it is used for heating ovens and for burning...

...dried as a litter for horses, and other cattle, as also for packing fish, &c. If* cut while green, and left to rot upon the ground, it is a good improver...manure for potatoes, and if buried beneath their roots, never fails to prod ace a good crop : it makes a brisk fire for the purposes of brewing and baking...