70 Gardening Under Glass 



strong, vigorous plant growth seen in commercial 

 establishments. 



If you burn any wood save the Wood Ashes 

 for use, keeping them where they cannot get wet. 

 They furnish both potash and lime, and put the 

 soil in excellent condition. They help make a 

 firm- wooded, normal growth, correcting the tend- 

 ency toward too much leaf growth which some- 

 times results from the use of manure and par- 

 ticularly of nitrate of soda alone. If plants are 

 growing strong, but do not bloom, wood ashes 

 will help them. 



There are a number of special commercial 

 plant-food preparations which are convenient 

 for use on a very small scale and may be used to 

 supplement the things described above. As a 

 general ready-made fertilizer for greenhouse 

 work I can recommend the Greenhouse Grower 

 mixture of the Nitrate Agencies Co. of New 

 York. 



