FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



like a soil rich with cow manure, and if given 

 a trowelful of bone meal about the end of 

 April will produce wonderful plants, aston- 

 ishing one in June by the amount of blos- 

 soms which each plant will bear. The fox- 

 gloves, while preferring a soil in which leaf- 

 mold predominates, do finely in the borders 

 and are also glad of some bone meal in April. 

 This tonic is also essential for the roses, 

 and should be given them in the spring and 

 again in midsummer. 



Sheep manure administered to the Japa- 

 nese anemones, either dry, when a trowelful 

 may be dug about the plants every month 

 after growth begins in the spring, or applied 

 in liquid form at three -weeks intervals, results 

 in marvelous growth, two-year-old plants 

 sending up many stalks of their beautiful 

 blossoms. 



If sheep manure be fed in the same manner 

 to the salpiglossis, the effect is equally satis- 

 factory. 



Constant iteration of the need of fertilizer 

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