74 FOOD FOR PLANTS 



Nitrate of Soda is an ideal fertilizer for all kinds 

 of flowering plants, especially roses. It is as you 

 know, neat and cleanly and harmless (not acid, nor 

 caustic) and every woman who cultivates vegetables 

 and flowers should keep it on hand, to be used as 

 occasion shall demand at the rate of one-half to one 

 teaspoonful to the square yard, or one rose bush. 



Instructions for Using Nitrate of Soda on 

 Flowers. 



Apply the Nitrate of Soda by broadcasting it 

 evenly over the entire surface of the garden you are 

 fertilizing, at the rate of 200 pounds per acre, before 

 you sow your seeds and before you set out your 

 plants. It may be applied later by hand between 

 the rows at the same rate if you find the earlier time 

 inconvenient. 



Our Formula for Flowers. 



Nitrate alone 200 lbs. per acre 



or preferably 



Nitrate 300 lbs. per acre 



Acid Phosphate 300 lbs. per acre 



When potash salts can be conveniently obtained 

 we advise the use of fifty pounds of sulphate of potash 

 to the acre every other year. 



