Note 2898 — BOOK XVII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CULTIVATED TREES.
John Bostock translation
This manure is still extensively employed in Flanders, Switzerland, and the vicinity of Paris. In the north of England it is mixed with ashes, and laid on the fields. There was an old prejudice, that vegetation grown with it has a fetid odour, but it has for some time been looked upon as exploded.