FERTILIZERS and LARGE "BLOOMS 
FORTUNATELY, for practical and altogether 
satisfactory results, the fertilizing problem of the 
dahlia is very simple. This is not true of all 
plants. A good grass lawn is often difficult to secure. 
Fifteen years of experiments with elaborate chemical 
fertilizers, used with manure, failed utterly to produce 
a lawn around the Tampa, Florida, post office, in the 
clear sand. Finally, three months' use of soft phos- 
phate and cow manure was found to be just right, and a 
beautiful grass lawn was the result. Lime is poison to 
rhododendrons and azaleas, but is required as an aid in 
turning starch into sugar, in the sisructure of most plants, 
and its use means fruits and vegetables of better flavor. 
The use of lime is a broad subject, and applications 
cannot be suggested without knowledge of the particu- 
lar soil to be treated, for the ground may be heavy, 
light, sandy, or clay^and lime may or may not have been 
recently applied. Lime has been used in agriculture 
for more than two thousand years, and its necessity 
and its value has been fully proven. If your soil is 
light excessive use of lime will cause trouble. On 
heavy soils reasonable and moderate applications of 
lime, either burned or slaked, will make the ground fri- 
able; but will compact light soils. Use lime thought- 
fully, for if strong in magnesia damage will follow too 
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