Bowker^s (Ammoniated) Food for Ffowers. 
For the Window Garden. 
Do you feed your plants? Plants are living things. They need care, food 
and water, and protection from heat or cold. But, no matter how much care 
be given them, growing plants will not thrive unless they are fed. 
Bowker's Flower Food feeds plants. A few grains dissolved in water 
will furnish a good many plants all they will need for two or three weeks. It 
contains fertilizing elements in a perfectly clean and soluble form. 
It is not a stimulant, but a perfect food for plants, concentrated and easily 
assimilable. 
It produces healthy foliage, abundant, rich and bright-colored blossoms, 
and prolongs the period of blossoming. 
It is for sale by the dealer who sends you this circular, or we will send it 
by mail at the following prices : Enough for thirty plants three months, 25 cts., 
by mail, postpaid. Enough for thirty plants a whole year, 50 cts., by mail, 
postpaid. Not sold in bulk. 
4®° When you send your order, be sure to ask for 
Prof. Maynard's treatise on Window Gardening, 
which is given free with each package. t 
Bov/ker's Greenhouse Chemicals. 
For use alone or in the Compost Pile. 
To help break up the compost pile quickly and to fix the ammonia, and at 
the same time to enrich the pile, is the .object of this mixture; in a word, these 
chemicals will not only enrich the compost, but quicken and preserve it. They 
can also be used alone directly on the beds or pots or in solution; for, taken 
together, they are a well-balanced, complete manure for all greenhouse purposes. 
While a great many use them in the compost, there are a great many more who 
use them by themselves, and find them a valuable aid for quick and profitable 
growth. 
Bowker's Greenhouse Chemicals are compounded in such proportions as 
to supplement the compost, supplying deficiencies and correcting excesses. It 
is also safer and surer to apply a combination of chemicals than a single chem- 
ical, unless one is absolutely certain which particular chemical is required; for 
a single chemical may make the compost too rich in one thing, and produce an 
unhealthy and one-sided growth. Men and animals feed upon a variety of 
foods; and plants should be nourished in the same way, if early, healthy and 
vigorous growth is to be secured. 
Application. For the compost. For mixing with the compost pile use from 100 to 
300 pounds of the chemicals to the cord, mixing them thoroughly through the pile, and letting 
it stand until wanted for use. If the compost is to be used in potting small and tender plants, 
we advise the use of about 100 pounds to the cord; but, if it is to be used on roses and hardy 
plants, then use as much as 300 pounds to the cord. 
For use alone. For general forcing (indoors or out) apply at the rate of about one 
pound to each hot-bed sash, or from six to eight pounds to every 100 square feet of bed, thor- 
oughly worked into the soil to the depth of two or three inches. This quantity is recom- 
mended when no compost at all is used in the bed; but, if a liberal dressing of compost has 
been applied, especially if it has had the chemicals added to it, then a smaller quantity of the 
clear chemicals should be used, — say not more than two to four pounds to 100 square feet. 
For forcing lettuce, cabbage, tomato plants, etc., apply from four to six pounds 
per 100 square feet, thoroughly mixed with the soil. Half the quantity may be applied a 
month later. 
For carnations, violets and similar plants use at the rate of four to six pounds for 
every icq square feet, or two to three pounds may be applied at one dressing, and then a 
month later apply two or three pounds more. 
For rose borders and hardy plants apply at the rate of from six to eight pounds per 
100 square feet, thoroughly worked into the soil. If it is desired to force the growth, a second 
application of the same quantity may be made a month later. 
For use in solution. Many prefer to apply the chemicals in solution; and in that 
case they can be dissolved at the rate of three pounds in a barrel of water, or two tablespoon- 
fuls in a gallon of water, and the plants watered with this solution the same as if it were clear 
water, applying a small quantity to the smaller and more tender plants, like heliotropes, and 
a larger quantity to the larger and more hardy plants, like roses. Tke solution should be 
ihorotighly stirred each time it is used, as all of it is not immediately soluble in water, but be- 
comes so after remaining in the soil for a little while! The particles which are deposited on 
the surface should be dug into the earth. It should not be poured over the leaves, but di- 
rectly on the earth. 
When to apply. If the chemicals are used in solutiofi, they may be applied once a 
week for three or four weeks, or until the plants begin to start, which will be noticed in a 
greener growth; after that, not oftener than once in four or six weeks. This does not apply 
when they are used in the earth. 
4®^Send #1.00 for a trial bag, sufficient for \ cord 
of compost, or 600 to 1,000 sq. feet of sash; 
or $3.00 for four times as much, delivered to 
cars or express in Boston or New York. 
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