Food for to give the plants another application of Nitrate. This 

 ! need not be as heavy as the first application. 



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Flowers. 



Every gardener (of vegetables or flowers) should 

 have at hand, all through the season, a bag or box of 

 Nitrate of Soda, to be used as a top-dressing on any 



Fertilizer Experiments with Fuchsias. 



Phosphoric Acid and Potash 

 without Nitrate of Soda. 



Phosphoric Acid and Potash 

 with 2 j oz. Nitrate of Soda. 



and every crop that grows in the garden. The need 

 for nitrogen is indicated by the pale green color of 

 foliage and slow growth. It is quite easy to be too 

 liberal in using Nitrate. From 50 to 100 pounds per 

 acre is the range in the quantity to be applied at any 

 one time to one acre. One pound of it would give 

 about 30 heaping teaspoonfuls. So 1 to l*/2 sucn 

 spoonfuls to a square yard, or 3 feet .along a row that 



