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Febbuabt 1, 1912. 



tIic Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Five-hundred-dollar Design fay the FIei«chman Floral Co., Chicago, for the Funeral of J. T. Harahan. 



I can not give at this time without 

 more data. Your soil is not prepared 

 properly. For next season leave out 

 the leaf-mold, and mix the soil and 

 manure thoroughly early in the spring, 

 before you want to use it. You will 

 not need a great deal of fertilizer, aside 

 from good cattle or stable manure. 

 With these and a good loam you can 

 prepare a soil in which any plant will 

 thrive. A light addition of pulverized 

 sheep manure will sometimes help to 

 boost things along, but do not overdo it. 

 Growers too frequently harbor the 



idea that fertilizers are for the pur- 

 pose of starting weakly plants into a 

 strong growth. No greater mistake 

 could possibly be made than this. A 

 plant must be in active growth before 

 it can assimilate any great amount of 

 food, and almost any fairly good soil 

 will contain as much food as a weak 

 plant is alt>le to take up. When the 

 plant gets into active growth and is 

 making progress toward robust health, 

 then a stimulant will cause it to spring 

 forward more rapidly in its growth. 

 Fertilizers should be considered as sup- 



plemental, and not of a curative nature. 

 In other words, you can not cure a sick 

 plant by dosing it with fertilizers, 

 but you can make a healthy, strong 

 plant grow faster and stronger by giv- 

 ing it extra food. Furthermore, a well 

 prepared soil is worth more than all 

 the fertilizers you can put on after- 

 ward. A. F. J. B. 



BEIMEDY FOB BUST. 



Referring to an inquiry in The Ee- 

 view of January 25, regarding cams- 



