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The Blue Book of Gardening 
High Grade Fertilizers 
The selling of fertilizer in the State of California is done under the supervision of a regularly appointed inspector, 
who inspects each lot of fertilizer as it is manufactured, and sees that it comes up to the analysis. Our fertilizer in 
sack lots is sold each with a label bearing such a guaranteed analysis, and customers buying our fertilizer are pro¬ 
tected in this manner, and are sure to receive the value for their money. These fertilizers are manufactured for us 
and put up according to the different wants of plants and lawns, hence when ordering fertilizer, please state if it is to 
be used on lawns, flowers, trees or vegetables. 
Do not poison your lawn and garden by using stable manure containing straw. Straw is generally infected with 
the eggs of the wire worm, which hatch out and the insect gets in the plants, hollows out the stems, which causes 
them to slowly perish. 
Never use stable manure on your lawn, and do not put this kind of manure in the soil ju^t before setting out young 
plants. Asters, Carnations and Stocks are especially subject to this wire worm. Stable manure should only be used 
after being piled up for at least six months, and thoroughly worked and broken up until most of the straw has dis¬ 
appeared, and then it should only be used as a mulch; that is, spreading the manure on top of the ground after thor¬ 
ough cultivation. If treated in this way, the ground will retain moisture longer, and if a lawn sprinkler is set to going 
on this manure, the fertilizing substances will gradually find their way to the roots. 
Pulerized Sheep Manure can be used on the smallest seedling of 
plants or trees, on lawns, or mixed with potting soil for house plants, 
and is also an excellent fertilizer for the vegetable garden as well as 
the orchard. 
In the city it is unequalled as a fertilizer and a mulch. This sheep 
manure sprinkled on the lawn will work its way in the sod and will 
remain as a covering or mulch for the roots and will remain in this 
way for several months, which makes it a more lasting fertilizer than 
the Commercial Fertilizer, and also enabling the lawn to start out 
quickly in the early Spring, as the lawn has in the meantime been 
making new roots in this sheep manure. For the above stated reasons 
we consider the Pulverized Sheep Manure the very best fertilizer that 
can be used on the lawn in the Winter or early Spring. For old lawns 
that are infested with devil grass, we advise the use of a coating of 
thia fertilizer and the sowing of one pound of Clover seed to every 500 
square feet. The Sheep Manure and the Clover seed together will give 
the appearance of a new lawn early in the Spring. 
Our Pulvrized Sheep Manure is free of weeds. It has been piled up 
and heated until all seeds have been started and killed by the extreme 
heat, which process decomposes all animal and vegetable matter, leav¬ 
ing only the pure sheep manure. Every bit of it is fertilizer. It is 
absolutely free of hay or straw. 
This manure is gathered from sheep corrals at shearing points, not 
from feeding stations; therefore you are buying the unadulterated con¬ 
centrated sheep droppings. 
The sheep are fed on ranges and all authorities agree that the manure 
from sheep thus fed shows a larger percentage of nitrogen and phos¬ 
phoric acid than that obtained from sheep fed on hay, straw or other 
coarse feeds. 
Price, per lb., 2$^c; 100-lb. sack, $1.25. 
Concentrated plant food enough to fertilize 25 pot plants, 25c; large 
sizes to fertilize 50 plants, 50c each. 
Vigoro, a highly concentrated fertilizer. 25 lbs. $1.50; 50 lbs. $2.25; 
100 lbs., $4.00. 
The approximate percentages of fertilizing elements contained in our 
sheep manure are as follows: 
Nitrogen_2.25 to 3.00 
Phosphoric acid_1.25 to 1.75 
Potash _2.50 to 3.50 
We can furnish sheep manure by the ton or carload, and will be glad 
to furnish prices to those in need of large quantities. 
Leaf Mould. Per sack, $1.50. This is sold in bulk and not weight 
sacks. 
Bone Meal is used to advantage on plants, trees and shrubbery, 
where a slow and permanent fertilizer is required. In setting out fruit 
and ornamental trees, use five pounds of bone meal to each tree, which 
should be covered with two inches of soil. Never place your plant 
directly on the bone meal. When making new roots the plant will 
gradually find its way to the bone meal, giving lasting results. Price, 
per lb., 5c. Per 100 lbs., $3.50. 
Blood Meal is a fine fertilizer for roses and should always be spaded 
in. If left near the surface, it produces worms; therefore do not use 
on house plants. Price per lb., 6c. Per 100 lbs., $3.50. 
Nitrate of Soda should be used with caution. It is a powerful fer¬ 
tilizer and will give immediate results. One large teaspoonful dissolved 
is sufficient for five gallons of water. Sprinkle the loam or earth in 
the flower pots with this solution. In orchards nitrate of soda is 
used at the rate of 100 pounds to the acre. Price per lb., 10c. Per 
100 lbs., market price furnished on application. 
Mixed Potting Soil. Containing leaf moulds, sand and pulverized 
sheep manure, especially desirable for potting plants such as Ferns, 
Begonias, Palms, etc. This mixture can also be used in preparing 
flower beds. Price per sack, $1.00. 
Commercial Fertilizer. Per lb., 5c. Per 100 lbs., $3.50. 
Ammonia Sulphate. 10c per pound; 3 pounds, 25c. 
We can furnish Roses in containers the year around 
