66 Gardening Under Glass 



stead we will just look into the practical needs 

 of the practical grower in a practical way. 

 Speaking from my own experience of a good 

 many years there are a certain few things I would 

 stock up with in starting a new glass garden. 



A71 Assortment of Plant Foods to Start ivith 



My greatest reliance I would place in manure. 

 I'd be careful to get the very best manure I 

 could find, however. If you are in a place where 

 ordinary manure cannot be obtained readily it 

 will be well to obtain commercial manure in 

 dry, powdered, standardized form, convenient 

 to handle, through your local florist or from a 

 seed house. This manure contains all the plant 

 food that regular barnyard manure contains, 

 excepting, of course, the humus. 



Commercial humus, however, can be bought 

 by the bag, and, when mixed with the dried 

 rotted yard manure, makes an excellent substi- 

 tute for well-rotted yard manure, and is very 

 much more convenient to handle. Manure alone 

 is a "complete" plant food because it contains 

 the different kinds of minerals needed, and also 

 humus. 



But in addition to manure it is well to have 

 other things for some special purposes. The 

 most important of these is: 



