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FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



with it to the greatest advantage. After all, we don't differ a great 

 deal from the farmer, only that our farming is done under glass. 

 In regard to obtaining better results with a crop and securing the 

 highest possible yield from a given space, both have to depend to a 

 large extent on the available plant food the soil contains. 



Bonemeal is, of all fertilizers, the most used by the florist. Being 

 slow to act and the actually available phosphoric acid being pro- 

 duced only as it slowly decays, we hear of very little damage being 

 done by it. The Rose grower has used bone for many years and 

 finds it better than anything else for restoring that which the plants 

 in the bench for several years have used up and that which has been 

 washed out of the soil by constant watering. We find that mixing 

 into the potting soil for our bedding stock about an 8-in. pot full 

 of bonemeal to a barrowful of soil, will provide food for the plants in 

 the small pots and make them do better than those which have no 

 bone. 



Sheep manure we also are well acquainted with, but under glass 

 don't use it too heavily, or as extensively as bonemeal. It acts 

 quicker, but of course hasn't the lasting qualities of bone, being 

 only a manure. 



The Carnation grower uses bone and sheep manure as a top 

 dressing during the Winter months; the Sweet Pea grower, after his 



Fig. 30. THE USEFUL DELIVERY GAR. Here is indeed a "nifty" delivery outfit. 

 Just what make of car you use is of less importance than to have a neat body at- 

 tractively painted and always kept in good order 



