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if healthy and doing well according to their habit 
will take their full share and enjoy it, though 
natnrally not requiring so much as the stronger 
erowers. Comtesse de Nadaillac will require her 
food and answer to it in size of glorious flowers, but 
an extra dose will not raise her to the stature of 
Ulrich Brunner. I mean either an evidently un- 
healthy plant, or one which though fairly healthy 
does not from some unknown cause thrive and do 
as well as the others. Such a one had always 
better be removed than kept and nursed: try giving 
it away; it does not sound very generous, but 
removal to a different soil and situation will be 
either kill or cure, and experience will show many 
wonderful instances of the latter eventuality. 
Care should also be taken that newly moved 
plants may have their liquid manure very much 
weaker till they have made some strong growth 
with large healthy new leaves. The wrong prin- 
ciple, then, is the supposing that because a plant is 
the strongest in the bed it therefore wants the least 
of the liquid manure; on the contrary, it wants, 
because it can use, the most. 
The time for using liquid manure is May and 
June, especially after rain if possible; if some be 
given in April, be careful of the young foliage, and 
do not give any to ‘“‘maiden”’ dwarfs till they have 
made some growth, being extra careful in this case 
that no drops fall on the plant itself. But will this 
be sufficient for a whole year’s food? That would 
depend a good deal on the soil, and whether 
artificial or natural solid manures were used as 
well. It is not advisable to apply any in the 
autumn after July, as the second growth of wood 
