“ REAL MANURE ” OR FOOD FOR PLANTS, 
AND HOW TO BET THE FINST PHIZES. 
■ OTHING can be so plain to see and understand — when but a mere handful of soil in pots 
become woven and even interwoven with roots for months, that notliing in the shajie of 
nourishment can remain but what is conveyed in the water from time to time for the plants 
to live on. It becomes perfectly apparent to all that if vigour in growth and higlily coloured wooms 
are required — particularly in hot weather — something beyond the ordinary water must be given, and 
we are quite sure that no one can grow plants in pots to attain anything approaching perfection 
without supplying them in some way or the other with food from day to day, and the ordinary horse, 
cow, or sheep manure placed in a tub and administered in a clear state, will give additional vigour ; 
but as the strengh is uncertain, and sometimes injurious, and the smell objectionable, we have 
determined to oiler our specially prepared real Manure in large and small quantities, to be used twice 
a week at the rate of 1 oz. to the gallon. All plants, after they become pot-bound, must be fed, and, 
if with the above food, the result will be marvellous and quite perceptible after ten days. IVithout 
seeing the beneficial effects of this specially prepared Manure one would be surprised at the difference ; 
the foliage at once becomes greener and more dense, points of each shoot put forth a greater length, 
more buds, and the flower assumes larger and bolder dimensions, colour far more vivid, and the whole 
more attractive and beautiful. 
Healthy vigorous growth is seldom attacked with insects ; this most rapid growth generally dates 
from the time when the first roots reach the sides of the pot, until the first rootlet finds its way through 
the bottom of the pot ; from this day onwai'd all plants must be either shifted into fresh soil or fed in 
some way, otherwise the plant is hastened into premature blooming, leaves gradually turn yellow, 
insects attack them, and tho wonder is, what is the matter ? Clear water is just sufficient to keep 
them lingering for a time ; should the weather be hot and dry they positively soon become an eyesore 
instead of an object of beauty. To grow plants to perfection, the art of feeding and giving a regular 
and just sufficient moisture is the main secret, and if either is done too much or too Tittle the object 
suffers by showing some slight signs of weakness, and only by close observers arc those signs of yellow- 
ness detected until insects commence eating the under surface of the foliage and tender skins, and as 
soon as the sun shines the leaves become blotched from the fact of tho under skin and veins being 
severed and thence scorched brown by the sap not being able to flow, hence the thousands of sickly 
looking plants that abound in almost every garden. It sometimes happens that too high and dry 
temperature will produce red spider and thrip, and give the like sickly appearance— if so, the beauty 
of the plant is gone for the .season, and it had better be stood out of doors in the shade. Mealy and 
house bugs and scaly insects can be completely eradicated by lightly brushing them with paraffin oil, 
the slightest touch of this slu-ivels them up. Thrip, a small long brown or black insect, somewhat 
like the shape of a pin’s point are difficult to get rid of, and the best way not to let them come is by 
using the “ Real Majjuke and the same with the minute pest commonly called red spider, they are 
so small that it is only with a sliarp eye, or through a magnifying glass, they can be seen moving about 
between the ribs of the under surface of the leaves, but we have as yet failed to sec the rod colour, 
and have often wondered why they should be so called ; these mites protect themselves with an almost 
invisible web, and the force of water required to dislodge or break it injures tho plants ; their complete 
dcstraction must be a continuous fumigation for twenty-four hours, and this is sure more or less to 
cause injury ; therefore, if a plant is attacked it is spoiled for the season, and it is best to place it out 
of doors fully exposed to heavy dews, which is the only thing to clear without injuring the plants. 
Want of food is the cause of Market Plants suddenly fading, although so beautiful when purchased. 
The market growers feed their plants up to the highest pitch, and if not continued they at onco 
commence to suffer; but if our “ Real Manure ” is applied as directed, and continued, plants will 
flower even beyond their usual period 
1 lb tin. Is.; 3 lb. tin, 2e. 6d. ; 6 lb tin, 4s. 6d. 
Special prices for larger quantities in bags, and also per cwt. for the garden. 
From Mr. J. Ward, New' Walk, Reverley, June 9l!i, 1882. 
Sir,— Your Plant Invigorator is the best plant manure I have ever used. 
From Mrs. Coulbourn, Lily Villa, Victoria Park, Manxtiester, 19f/i April, 1882. 
My gardener, who thought my ordering “ Real Manure” quite superfluous, saying “ Every gardener 
had his own, and one does as good as another,” came to me yesterday, saying 1 was quite right in 
insisting ho should try youis ; and that in the ten days he had used it for certain plants as I directed 
he could see a marked improvement. He is ([uite a convert. 
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