THE USE OF FERTILIZERS 



to suffer in any respect whatever from failure 

 to receive new soil or more root-room. He 

 has also a Fern — an Adiantum — which has 

 not been repotted or furnished with fresh soil 

 for several years. Both these plants have been 

 fed with weak applications of liquid manure, 

 and the result has been most satisfactory. 

 The use of fertilizers on old plants does away 

 with a large amount of work by making it 

 unnecessary to repot frequently, and it econo- 

 mizes space, as it makes it possible to grow 

 good-sized plants in smaller pots than it has 

 heretofore been thought safe to use. 



At no time should plants treated as men- 

 tioned in the preceding paragraph be given 

 strong applications of liquid fertilizer. Let it 

 be rather weak, but apply it frequently, and 

 regularly. Too strong an application will be 

 likely to excite a growth which is not desirable 

 on the part of a plant already of good size. 

 The aim should be to give simply enough 

 nutriment to keep the plant in healthy condi- 

 tion. ** 



