SOME PRACTICAL HINTS 



the previous fall is well forked into the 

 soil, and soon becomes incorporated with 

 it in the form of leaf mould, thus creat- 

 ing a rich, light earth which is of the best 

 texture for new roots to push into. Each 

 time I weed during the summer, I have 

 by me a little pail filled with a mixture of 

 equal parts of " phosphate," wood-ashes, 

 and sand, and I sprinkle a light dressing 

 of it under the plants or young shrubs, 

 and fork it in in forking out weeds, and 

 it stimulates their growth wonderfully. A 

 single Shirley poppy treated in this way 

 has yielded three hundred blossoms, and 

 remained in bloom for many weeks; and 

 I have grown hardy white mignonette three 

 feet in height, and branched, almost like a 

 shrub, in the same way. 



I do not know the commercial name 

 for this remarkable phosphate because I 

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