CHAPTER V 



FERTILIZERS AND HOW TO APPLY THEM, 

 TOGETHER WITH SOME PLANT REMEDIES 



TT^ORMERLY, the feeding of infants was a 

 comparatively simple matter. They were 

 given milk, and, after the first few months, a 

 cereal; but today the nourishment of young 

 children has become serious and intricate, 

 and the food of each child is prepared accord- 

 ing to a special prescription, moderated thus 

 and so from " milk from the top of the bot- 

 tle ;" one cannot wonder if the hair of grand- 

 mothers left in charge of their children's 

 children becomes prematurely white in con- 

 sequence. 



In former times, the gardener used only 

 manure, or if he were quite advanced in his 

 craft, some bone meal, as stimulants for his 

 flowers. Fertilizers, today, are as many in 



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