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sprinklings will be required, say a pint or so in a season. 

 Two year old and fruiting vines may be top-dressed with 

 one or two quarts during the year, the old material 

 being removed occasionally and fresh applied, as may 

 seem to be required. The heaviest dressings should be 

 made late in the fall, and the first thing in the spring 

 before the vines have started. It will always be well to 

 apply to the pots a little fresh soil before giving the 

 Fertilizer, and this again may be covered with soil, or 

 leaf mould, with much advantage. So in making appli- 

 cations of Fertilizer to out of door vines, a mulching or 

 dressing of good soil or leaf mould over the special 

 manure will be highly useful. 



Our Fertilizer is quite as powerful as guano in respect 

 to the quantity and value of its ingredients, but it is 

 not so volatile, soluble, or caustic, and hence acts more 

 slowly, lasts lon-ger, and is not so dangerous to plants. 

 It contains all the special manures required by the grape 

 for the growth of wood and the production of fruit, and 

 will be found exceedingly convenient for those who do 

 not care to trouble themselves about making composts 

 of crude and oflfensive substances in order to obtain the 

 necessary fertilizing agents. 



