FERTILIZER FOR CHOICE PLANTS. 



of having them was suggested. There was not consumed more than 150 pounds of coal, 

 and as I employ my time as usefully as possible, and have no opportunity to trifle, I send 

 IT. B. the dimensions of the house in which 150 pounds of coal was consumed: it is 74 

 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 14 feet high, with glass on all sides, and ask him to be kind 

 enough to work out the mathematical problem of how far it will give " artificial heat, 

 and to what degree on an average." That he may not err in his calculations, he must al- 

 low for the exposed situation of the house, which, if I am not greatly mistaken, he is 

 aware of. 



As to the point at issue, viz — cutting ripe grapes on the second of August, (not, as he 

 erroneously states, the first,) without artificial heat, it is the most simple part of the bu- 

 siness; and it strikes me forcibly that he writes without much experience, or he would 

 well know that the kinds mentioned, (Malvasia, and Joslin's St. Albans,) maybe ripened 

 so early without any fire heat whatever. Those same grapes were ready to cut a week 

 earlier, but as my employer was from home at the time, they were reserved till his return; 

 so that allowing for the six nights and one day that the stoves were lighted, the argu- 

 ment will stand about " zero" in his favor. The season in which the vines were planted, 

 1850, no stoves were used, and I cut several bunches from tubs planted the same spring, 

 the latter part of Jul}'. There has not been either, any fire heat of any kind, this sea- 

 son, and the vines are growing very vigorous, and many have shown from fifty to over 

 sixty bunches, generally speaking, stronger than last year. Hoping I have explained all 

 to the satisfaction of your correspondent, I am yours respectfully, Wm. Chorlton, 



Gardener to J. C. Green, Esq., New-Brighton, Staten-Island. 



May I, 1852. 



A LIQUID FERTILIZER FOR CHOICE PLANTS. 



KY AN AMATEUR, NEW-YORK. 



Dear Sir — I am confident that there are many of your lady readers, and perhaps many 

 of the other sex, who are puzzed among the many new manures, and having failed with 

 some, and injured their plants with others, thej'' end by raising only sickly and meagre 

 plants, when they might have them presenting a luxuriant and satisfactory appearance — 

 with leaves of the darkest green, and flowers or fruit of double the usual size. 



Having made a trial for three years past, with a perfectly safe and satisfactory liquid 

 fertilizer, which appears to suit all kinds of vegetation, which is clean and easily applied, 

 and procured without difliculty, in any town, I confidently recommend it to your readers, 

 especially those who wish to give especial pains to, and get uncommon results from, cer- 

 tain favorite plants — either in pots, or in the open garden — plants whose roots are within 

 such a moderate compass, that they can be reached two or three times a week, if not oftcn- 

 er by the watering-pot. 



This liquid fertilizer is made by dissolving half an ounce of sulphate of ammonia in a 

 gallon of water. 



Nothing so good can be cheaper, and the substance may be obtained at almost any apo- 

 thecary's. 



Now for the mode of using it. T may say, at the outset, that weak as this solution ap 

 to be, and is, if plants are watered with it daily, they will die — ^just as certainly as 

 will who drinks nothing but pure brandy. 



