FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



ing they were all dug up, the tops cut down 

 to the roots, the plants then set in* a row in 

 the vegetable garden, and a mixture of equal 

 parts of soot and flowers of sulphur powdered 

 over them. All the other phlox in the garden, 

 were first sprinkled and then treated with 

 the soot and sulphur and rather ghastly 

 they looked. 



The sick plants that had been transferred 

 suffered from being removed in full summer, 

 and a number of them died, but the survi- 

 vors came up without a trace of mildew. 



Setting rows of plants in the vegetable gar- 

 den has become so constant an occurrence 

 that my men now often ask "Where?" and 

 say there is no more room, or that soon the 

 vegetable garden will be nothing but a flower 

 garden. 



The Garden Club of Philadelphia, an asso- 

 ciation of enthusiastic and earnest women 

 gardeners, each of whom is her own head 

 gardener, have, by attention, experiment and 

 observation, made many valuable discover- 



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