GROWING EXHIBITION BLOOMS 87 



be maintained and treatment given as 

 \ advised in Chapter I. 



TIME FOR APPLYING SPECIAL FOODS 



When planting has been done between 

 May 1 5th and 2Oth, the plants, if growing 

 as they should, will be ready for some special 

 feeding about July I5th. As the matter of 

 special feeding has been thoroughly discussed 

 in Chapter V, and as the same general prin- 

 ciples apply to the feeding of all plants, it is 

 only necessary to make slight changes or 

 modifications of the treatment for plants 

 grown for cut flowers. Surface dressings 

 may be used to better advantage for plants 

 growing in beds or boxes than for those 

 growing in pots. The first food should be an 

 application of fine ground bone meal at the 

 rate of one pound to twenty square feet of 

 surface. Cow or sheep manure water may 

 then be used for a week, followed by an 

 application of lime water or of dry air- 

 slaked lime at about double the rate advised 

 for the bone. Sulphate of ammonia should 

 be given next, after which a surface dressing 

 of well-decomposed cow or sheep manure, 

 about one inch thick, should be applied. 



