CULTIVATION 



food is liquid manure water in the proportion of half 

 a bushel of manure to a barrel of water "weak 

 and often" is the old gardener's recipe. Dr. Huey 

 advocates watering heavily during dry conditions 

 before such feeding. 



Blood diluted with water is sometimes used. Mr. 

 Frederick W. Taylor applied this alternately with 

 manure water; his recipe is five pounds of blood to 

 a barrel of water. After mixing, permit the blood to 

 settle, then draw off the greater part of the water; 

 use the same blood in the same manner twice again, 

 five pounds making three mixtures. 



In April or May the shoots should begin to grow, 

 and very shortly the buds themselves will appear 

 and gradually turn into blooms. On certain varie- 

 ties, too few unfortunately, there is only one terminal 

 bud on each growth; on a great many, small buds 

 will appear close to the larger ones; these should be 

 carefully removed as naturally they take a certain 

 amount of sustenance, and the main bloom will 

 develop better and will be of finer quality if it receives 

 all the nourishment. It does not take very long to 

 go over the plants and disbud all these smaller 

 flower buds, and unless nothing but a mass of color 

 is preferred remove them. This can be easily and 

 quickly done by hand. 



It will be found that all the young buds and leaves 



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