This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
No one doubts the utility of liquid manure, but we cannot get enough of it, and it is, after all, some trouble to make it; perhaps no more trouble with it than it is worth. A Pennsylvania gardener gives the following directions for making a liquid manure of right strength, suitable for use in flower beds and around the garden: "1 have used, for several years, a liquid manure which is very effective in pushing on the growth of vegetables, strawberries, roses, grass, etc. My first test of it was the pouring of a stream from a watering pot across a piece of poor grass opposite a post which served as a mark. There was soon a distinct wave, as bold and as green as the line of a fairy ring. This season I show half a row of peas and half a bed of strawberries, very superior to the other half, to exhibit the application. It is chiefly, I suppose, sulphate of ammonia, and is made thus: To one gallon of stale urine (at least one week old) in a deep wooden vessel or crock, add two ounces of sulphuric acid. Next day put in a couple of ounces of chalk or lime, to take up any acid remaining free.
Stir. Put a pint of this into a pail of water, and use once or twice a week on growing plants, and preferably when the ground is wet, as it diffuses them among the feeding points of the roots better".
 
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