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JOUKNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



being drawn by this or that plant from the practically inexhaustible 

 supplies existent in the soil. How far the cultivator will by the sweat 

 of his brow, or the exercise of knowledge and ingenuity, set free the vast 

 stores of accumulated fertility in his soil, whether in the garden, border, 

 or pot earth, and how far he 'will augment fertility by applications of more 

 fertilisers, must rest with the individual. The personal equation must 

 ever be an important factor in such problems. 



One item more. Home resources are very frequently much neglected. 

 Crop residues, road scrapings, house refuse of all kinds, made into a heap 

 or compost, in a convenient spot, turned two or three times, and inter- 

 mixed with lime in some form, kainit or basic slag, will yield good 

 mould which will require but little assistance in the form of chemical 

 fertilisers. 



