18 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



by the use of which, and a little bone meal, one may 

 garden, quite independent of the bulkier manures. 



Another source of exceptional fertility is found 

 in night soil that in country places might profitably 

 be returned to the soil with the advantage of greater 

 fertility and better sanitation. If a trench is dug 

 through a garden hed, a foot or two at a time and 

 such matter deposited and covered as soon as the 

 liquid portion has seeped away, the result will be a 

 soil that will grow anything and be in a mechanical 

 condition that makes working it a recreation rather 

 than a toil. One of the finest garden spots I ever saw 

 was produced from indifferent soil by this means 

 alone. 



Where poultry manure is used as a fertilizer a 

 much less quantity is required than of stable manure 

 ■ — an eight quart pail full being sufficient for a square 

 yard of ground and this should be trenched in so 

 that the roots of newly planted things will not come 

 into direct contact with it. By trenching is meant 

 the method of laying back the soil across the end of 

 a bed for one spade's depth and width, filling in the 

 trench thus formed with manure and throwing the 

 next row of spading onto this; in this way all the 

 manure is buried a spade's depth below the surface 

 where it remains moist, continues to decay, and at- 

 tracts the roots of the plants down into deep soil in 

 search of the food it offers. Manure left too close to 



