52 Market Gai^dcning. 



son just how to detect the wants of the crops, but a 

 little acquaintance with their normal habits of growth 

 will speedily teach one what he needs to observe. 



It is imperative, even in an economical view, where 

 a crop is checked in growth from want of fertilizing 

 matter, that some quick-acting fertilizer be promptly 

 applied, for upon the question of a few dollars' expend- 

 iture at this crisis may depend all the difference be- 

 tween a crop and no crop. Whenever the need of such 

 an application occurs, it is better to sow the fertilizer 

 broadcast than to place it directly on the hill and 

 about the plant ; and the labor of applying it is less. 

 Liquid manure may be applied by the process already 

 described for irrigating, in a furrow opened about a 

 foot from the row ; more or less, according to the 

 growth the plants have made. 



