This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... sprinkle it in the spring upon the young plants already come up, as is done in other cases with the strongest manures and stimulants. Some conclusive experiments have proved that the maceration of oil cakes in water produces a liquid manure of great energy. In the Netherlands, also, they are mixed with the urine of the stables or other animal substances. The dregs of olives, which contain the skin, the parenchyma, and the kernel, however well prepared, even in the improved mills, contain some oil which is extracted by rotting them in cisterns; the mud which is left at the bottoms of these cisterns is an excellent manure, which, however, Bosc affirms is scarcely used in the districts of France where the olive is cultivated. I have seen it used here and there in nurseries and at...