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dressing of wood ashes, applying a small 

 handful to each large pot, is one way, as 

 this product contains considerable lime. 

 Wood ashes may also contain a small amount 

 of potash. A dressing of air-slaked lime 

 may be given in the same proportion as 

 the wood ashes. The best method is to 

 slake a half bushel of good lime in a barrel. 

 After it is well slaked, fill the barrel with 

 water. Use this lime solution, well stirred, 

 at the rate of one gallon to eight or ten 

 gallons of clear water, giving the plants a 

 watering with it every ten days or two 

 weeks. Assuming that feeding the plants 

 with liquid food was begun July iSth, a 

 watering with lime water is given at the 

 outset. Some liquid manure should be 

 prepared for the next application. Get a 

 fifty-gallon barrel and an old burlap bag, 

 into which put about a bushel and a half 

 of fresh cow manure; that taken from the 

 stables is the best, as it will contain some 

 urine. Put the bag of manure in the barrel 

 and fill the latter with water, allowing it 

 to stand for two or three days, giving the 

 bag a stirring each day. Apply it to the 

 soil in the pots diluted with clear water in 



