Artificial heat can nearly always be dispensed with from June 

 i to September i, sometimes longer. The plants can bear a 

 lower temperature at night in early Fall than at any other time 

 during the year, as they have got hardened during the Summer. 

 It is, however, wise to be upon the alert for the early frosts in 

 the Fall. A little ventilation at night is needed, and bottom ven- 

 tilation seems to work admirably in this case, even while you have 

 artificial heat on. Be on the lookout for high north and north- 

 west winds and see that you have your night ventilation regu- 

 lated, so that your young fronds do not get chilled. By the first 

 part of September you should have plenty of good-looking plants 

 ready for the market. The plants propagated during the Summer 

 months of the previous year should now be ready in 5 and 6-inch 

 pots. 



Watering with liquid manure seems to do most good at this 

 time. They are in a healthy growing condition, and you are be- 

 ginning to apply artificial heat. This will help the plants to dry 

 a little and feeding will do them good. Farleyenses are great 

 feeders, but be sure the plants are pretty well rooted in their 

 last shift and have consumed most of the nourishment in the pots. 

 The best watering mixture that I have tried is composed as fol- 

 lows : Place one shovelful of well ventilated human faeces and 

 three of pure cow manure in an ordinary kerosene barrel, fill 

 with water and let it stand for a couple of days. Use it sparingly 

 at first. After the plants have received a few applications, a 5-inch 

 pot will do well with an ordinary two-gallon can of water, but 

 you can always keep a few plants marked for experimenting and 

 thus be enabled to tell how much the plants will stand before 

 applying it to the general stock. After the plants have consumed 

 the nourishment in the last shift and they begin to throw small 

 fronds and look starved, if the roots are healthy and you do 

 not want to shift them into larger pots, give them plenty of 

 liquid manure once or twice a week and if conditions are other- 

 wise right they are bound to respond and yield up a crop of 

 fronds. Small, delicate sprouts should be broken off. Plants 



