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New York Office 56 Cedar Street 
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Efficiency in the Flower Garden 
( Continued jrom page 55) 
But careful selection and planning alone 
do not make the gardener efficient with 
shrubs. They must be made to live after 
they arrive from the nursery. And the 
surest way to have success with them after 
they arrive is to prepare their places for 
them before they arrive. As in vegetable 
gardening or flower gardening, so in gar¬ 
dening with shrubs, the preliminaries can¬ 
not be slighted without poor results in the 
end, no matter how much care may be 
bestowed afterward. Thoroughly rotted 
manure and bone dust — preferably fine 
and coarse or knuckle bone, mixed to¬ 
gether — are the best fertilizers. They 
should be thoroughly mixed in the soil in 
each hole where a shrub or tree is to be 
set, if possible a couple of weeks before 
planting. Where a border of any size is 
to be made it will save trouble to plow or 
spade up the whole and enrich it, rather 
than to make individual holes. Small 
shrubs should be set about three feet 
apart; larger ones four or five; when 
fully grown they should crowd each other 
slightly and completely shade the ground 
between them, as this more closely ap¬ 
proximates their natural condition of 
growth. 
Unpack at once upon receipt from the 
nursery, and if they must be kept a few 
days before planting, heel in in a moist 
trench. When planting, cut back any 
broken or scraggly roots to clean, sound 
wood. Set in slightly deeper than the old 
soil-mark on the stem. Pack the soil in 
firm, using the fingers or a blunt stick. If 
it is dry pour in water when the whole is 
half filled, and after it has soaked away 
complete the planting. Use the feet to 
make the shrub very firm in the soil, after 
the dirt is filled in. Then cover with loose 
soil on top to act as a mulch. If the 
weather continues hot or dry a mulch of 
leaves or spent manure or inverted sod 
should be placed around the stem. This 
will double the effectiveness of any water¬ 
ing you may do. 
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