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TRIMMING RETINOSPORAS. 



Specimen plants of retinosporas are 

 often grown so close together that in 

 order to retain for each one its indi- 

 viduality, without moving them, they 

 7ieed some cutting back. Now, the trees 

 nill look much better when this work is 

 (lone if a knife is used instead of a 

 shears. If the knife is used judiciously, 

 110 one but the user will know of the 

 operation, unless told of it. 



Then, again, instead of throwing the 

 cuttings away, it will probably be much 

 better and much more profitable, to 

 either a commercial man or a private 

 gardener, to put the cuttings in soil in 

 a frame. There, with attention in the 

 matter of water and shade, they will 

 soon take root and in two years they will 

 make nice little plants, worth a good deal 

 more than all the trouble it was to raise 

 them. D. M. 



SCARCIT/ OF MANURES. 



The coming of the motorcar has had 

 many economic issues besides those in- 

 volved in its manufacture, the most im- 

 portant, from the gardener's point of 

 view, being the shortage of stable 

 manure caused by the general use of 

 motor, in place of horse traction, says 

 a writer in the Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 More particularly does this apply to mar- 

 ket gardens and nurseries within easy 

 distance of London, which depend largely 

 on the metropolis for supplies of manure. 

 A few years ago there was no diflBculty 

 in procuring a hundred tons or so of 

 fairly good stable manure from London 

 in the course of a few days, while now 

 one is lucky to get a couple of 10-ton 

 truck loads after giving a week's notice, 

 and the quality is exceedingly bad. This 

 scarcity of good stable manure is becom- 

 ing a serious matter to market gardeners 

 and nurserymen generally, and it is hard 

 to say what substitute as good and as 

 cheap can be found to take its place. 

 To firms that have been in the habit of 

 using a thousand tons or more each year 

 this is a grave question. There are al- 

 ways various chemical manures that can 

 be used, but it has to. be remembered 

 that the cost is an important item where 

 manure is used on a large scale, and that 

 also all manures have two effects on 

 land; viz.: chemical and physical. It is 

 easy enough to be mathematically precise 

 as to the actual amount of phosphates, 

 etc., required by the growing crop, but 

 the continued use of inorganic manures 

 on many lands has the effect of leaving 

 the soil close and stiff, and in some cases 

 almost unworkable. Good stable manure, 

 on the contrary, besides containing plant 

 food, forms after decomposition the rich, 

 black mold so common in old kitchen and 

 market gardens. The mechanical effect, 

 therefore, is important, and on heavy or 

 stiff soils stable manure, with plenty of 

 long straw in it, is a valuable means of 

 keeping the ground open and porous. 



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