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Six inches more of the soil can then be added, and on top of this a layer 
of well-rotted manure, or vegetable mould if procurable. Then fill in the rest 
of the soil, and allow it to lie for a month or so before planting. 
When planting the roses, work a handful of bonedust into the bottom of 
each hole, set the plants firmly in the ground, water well if the soil is dry, and 
then mulch each plant with three inches of coarse manure, 
If it is too much of an undertaking to trench the whole of the garden in 
this way, holes may.be dug out where each ‘rose is to go, and filled in in exactly 
the same manner. 
The most unpromising soils treated in this way will grow excellent roses, 
and the trouble and labour expended will be well repaid by the profusion of 
beautiful blooms which the plants will yield during the summer, 
Next month { will have something to say on how to treat the roses after 
planting, in order to keep them in the best of health and to ensure a continuous 
supply of flowers. 
JADOO FIBRE. 
 Unver this singular name a new and wonderful plant food was introduced 
last year by Mr. W. R. Virgoe, proprietor of the Old Chatsworth Nursery at 
Brighton, near Melbourne. To judge by the encomiums passed on the article 
by many leading horticulturists and fruitgrowers in the colonies, in England, © 
and in America, it would appear that Jadoo, both in the form of fibre and as 
aliquid fertiliser, is worthy of attention. Neither of these can be called 
a manure. They do not “force” anything, but induce a wonderful 
growth of “fibrous roots,’ which enable the plant to absorb so much 
more nourishment that it grows quicker and stronger, and healthier in. 
every way, than it can possibly do in soil alone. The fibre is imported in bales 
containing six bushels each, hydraulically compressed into a space of 5 cubic. 
feet. or use, the fibre must be thoroughly disintegrated by rubbing it on a 
washboard or between the hands. When required for open ground for trees, | 
plants, vines, &c., or for potting plants, it should be moistened with water until _ 
a bushel weighs about 35 1b. For potting plants, pots should be used two’ ~ 
sizes smaller than is required for soil, and. then proceed exactly as with soil, — 
but pot more firmly in all cases. If Jadoo and soil are used together, then a 
pot one size smaller may be used. It must then be thoroughly watered. 
When sowing seeds, rough portions of Jadoo are placed over the usual | 
crocks, and’ the pot is then filled up with fibre pressed firmly and thoroughly 
watered. The seed is then sown thinly and covered to about its own depth 
with a little silver sand. After-watering must not be overdone. When Jadoo 
and soil are used together, they must be thoroughly mixed. To apply the fibre 
to old vines, the earth is scraped away as near the principal roots as possible, 
and the Jadoo is placed about 6 inches below the surface and covered with 
earth. The object of this is to cause fresh roots to form in the Jadoo. Tt is 
most important that the fibre be moist. Tn planting out young vines, a gallon 
of Jadoo fibre is used both above and below the roots. Jadoo liquid, diluted 
20 to 1, helps on the crop greatly, if given when vines are first “breaking ” 
and when the fruit begins to colour. 
Tf Jadoo is placed in the furrow in which vegetable seeds are sown, it is 
claimed that the crop will come to maturity at least a fortnight sooner than. 
usual. 
Potatoes are early matured by placing them in 2 inches of fibre. 
In the Gardener's Chronicle it is stated that some potatoes were grown in 
Colonel Halford Thompson’s garden at Eastcliffe, !'eignmouth, England, which 
had been grown in Jadoo fibre, The sets were planted over a thin layer of 
Jadoo, and about 2 or 3 inches over and around them. They were then 
covered with earth in the usual manner. The crop yielded 5 1b. 2 oz. per 
plant, being in the proportion of 22 tons to 25 tons per acre of marketable 
tubers. 
