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HOW TO GROW 



very quickly by simple means. If you wish to 

 grow extra fine products and reap the profits 

 thereof, try it. This may be a hint for some one, 

 also, who might wish to grow some favorite plant 

 for which his soil is not naturally favorable. By 

 making a compost heap containing the elements 

 required by such a plant, and applying the mix- 

 ture of prepared soil and fertilizers as stated, no 

 one need despair of growing, to some extent, any 

 kind of plant within the range of the climate, be 

 his soil as it may. If late cabbages be planted 

 after the plowing under of some heavy green 

 crop at the proper stage of development (when 

 the plants begin to flower), a luxuriant clover-sod, 

 for instance, or winter rye, or a spring-sown mix- 

 ture of oats, peas, vetches or the like, but a mod- 

 erate quantity of additional manuring is needed 

 for growing a fine crop of cabbages ; but it must 

 always be borne in mind that the richer the 

 ground is manured, the larger and better the crop of 

 cabbages, and the better the ground is left for 

 coming crops. 



It will in many cases be found advantageous, 

 when the work can be accomplished, to water 

 thoroughly with fluid manure, dissolved excre- 

 mental matter of any kind, well diluted, so as not 

 to burn the plants, or well-rotted, easily dis- 

 solved substances. Such watering, if the solu- 

 tion be very strong, had better be done during, 

 or immediately before or after, a rain. In cases of 

 drouth, the effect of such help will, of course, be 



