FERTILIZERS AND PLANT REMEDIES 



lowed by asters in shades of pink. The bor- 

 der contains about eight hundred plants of 

 phlox, about five hundred foxgloves, and 

 innumerable tulips, both early and late, care- 

 fully set in sand, planted wherever there was 

 room for a bulb. For four months this border 

 is continuously eflfective in color, ranging from 

 cherry to white. 



Very fine horn shavings, dissolved in the 

 proportion of a peck to a kerosene -oil barrel 

 of water, and stirred well every day for three 

 days, and then a pint of this solution poured 

 upon the earth every two weeks, for cannas, 

 dracsenas and all foliage plants, has wonder- 

 ful effect. This fertilizer is much used in 

 Germany. Vaughn, of New York, is the only 

 seedsman who catalogues it. 



Scotch soot, applied twice a month to foli- 

 age plants, a little being dug lightly into the 

 soil, increases the brilliancy of their color. 



If one could only invent some treatment 

 or some fertilizer that would prolong the 

 period of bloom of the peonies, or produce a 



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