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first planting for another season's work. Or if the 

 plants are healthy and the soil full of working roots, 

 liquid manure may be used quite freely. 



In addition to these applications, it will under some 

 conditions be found advisable to use nitrate of soda in 

 small quantity after the buds are formed and just be- 

 fore maturing. 



Used thus, if the mulching has been on for some time, 

 it will materially aid the bud to develop size, but its 

 use at other times is inadvisable, because it tends to 

 make a rapid soft growth, which in some varieties les- 

 sens productiveness. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



ttATEEING. 



Watering and ventilating are no doubt the rocks on 

 which many a man's hopes have been wrecked. Every- 

 thing went beautifully as long as the sun shone brightly, 

 but when November came with its grey, leaden sky, 

 followed by Decembei; with its piercing cold, its storms, 

 covering what of the glass frosts had not claimed, some- 

 how, the plants seemed to grow less day by day, instead 

 of pushing on vigorously as they had during the sum- 

 mer and early fall. One day's mistake at this critical 

 period, and your summer's work goes for naught. 



No set rules can be either laid down or followed in 



