FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



rose garden, my men make a little trench a 

 few inches from the stalk, around each rose- 

 bush or tree, and about two inches deep, 

 scatter in it the nitrate of soda^ and cover 

 with earth; when the whole garden has been 

 thus treated, we turn* on the water, which 

 then gently washes the tonic to the roots of 

 the roses. This has been done the past two 

 years about May 10th, and again the middle 

 of July, with excellent results. 



Snapdragons which have been started in a 

 hotbed in March, and set out in the garden in 

 mid-May, will begin to bloom early in June, 

 and if the soil in which they are grown is rich 

 and some fine bone meal be dug about them 

 when first set out, and if also they receive a 

 dose of liquid cow manure every two weeks, 

 they will continue to send up stalwart stalks 

 of flowers into late fall, and until quite thick 

 ice has formed. 



I know an excellent woman gardener whose 

 greatest specialty is the successful raising of 

 stocks and snapdragons, and whose plants 



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