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choice of them is optional with the grower, 

 using a reasonable variety for change. These 

 supplemented by light surface dressings 

 will carry the plants to a successful finish. 

 A light surface dressing of fine ground bone 

 meal should be given early in the season. 

 Later, one of good manure should be applied 

 sufficiently heavy to protect any roots that 

 may come to the surface, and about the first 

 of September a small handful of good wood 

 ashes to each pot should prove beneficial. 

 The feeding of bush plants may be continued 

 until the blooms are more than half developed, 

 provided always that the plants give evi- 

 dence by their condition that they are 

 assimilating the food which is given them. 



