Odds and Ends 



If you keep chickens or rabbits, when dressing them 

 do not waste the blood, but save it, add about thirty 

 times as much water and pour liberally about once a 

 month into your hanging baskets, potted ferns, be- 

 gonias, etc. It works wonders with all plants in the 

 open ground as well. 



A little bone meal sprinkled into the potted plants 

 and scratched into the soil in the spring time is extra 

 good. 



A tablespoonful of domestic ammonia to a gallon of 

 water is good for plants of all kinds. Use liberally 

 right after watering. 



Asparagus Springeri in hanging baskets or in pots 

 after a season or so crowd themselves out so that it is 

 advisable to pry them out, take a hatchet and cut away 

 a large portion of the outside of the root system, and 

 replant in new soil in which bone meal at a ratio of a 

 handful to a bucketful of soil has been thoroughly 

 mixed. This should be done in the early spring time. 

 Any good fertilizer will do, if bone meal is not at hand. 



Under no circumstances plant Eucalyptus trees on 

 a city lot. Nothing else can grow under or near them. 



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