August  21,  1902. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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Journal  4 
THURSDAY,  AUGUST  21,  1902. 
Using  Artificial  Manures. 
late  years  gardening  has  made 
wonderful  progress,  but  in  one 
thing  gardeners  have  lagged 
behind,  namely,  in  knowledge 
of  the  use  and  application  of 
artificial  manures.  The  various 
mixed  garden  manures  and  special 
fertilisers  offered  by  the  different  firms 
are  of  great  value,  but  they  partake  a 
little  too  much  of  the  quack  doctor’s  cure-all. 
The  numerous  plants  a  gardener  has  under 
his  charge  have  very  different  requirements, 
and  a  study  of  them  is  not  only  profitable 
but  extremely  interesting.  Speaking  broadly, 
farmers  know  what  special  fertilisers  their 
crops  require,  then  why  should  not  gardeners? 
All  plants  require  mixed  manures,  but  in  the 
mixtures  for  Wheat,  Oats,  and  Barley,  and 
plants  of  the  same  class,  nitrogenous  manures 
predominate  ;  for  Turnips  and  Swedes, 
phosphatic  manures  ;  for  Potatoes,  potassic 
and  nitrogenous  manures  ;  for  Clovers  and 
Leguminous  plants,  phosphatic  and  potassic 
manures  ;  for  Mangolds,  nitrogenous  manures 
and  salt,  and  so  forth.  If  gardeners  had  their 
crops  roughly  mapped  out  in  the  same  way 
it  would  be  advantageous  to  them. 
The  matter  is  not,  however,  so  simple  as 
looks,  for  even  in  manures  of  the  same  class 
there  are  great  differences.  Take  the  two 
nitrogenous  manures  in  most  regular  use, 
namely,  nitrate  of  soda  and  sulphate  of 
ammonia.  Although  they  supply  the  same 
kind  of  plant  food,  namely,  nitrogen,  they 
often  act  in  a  widely  different  way.  Sulphate 
of  ammonia,  though  the  richer  of  the  two,  is 
much  slower  in  making  its  presence  felt,  and 
its  specific  action  appears  to  be  to  develop 
the  flower  and  seed.  Nitrate  of  soda,  one  of 
the  quickest  manures  at  our  disposal,  on  the 
other  hand,  appears  to  develop  the  leaf  and 
stem.  Herein,  then,  is  room  for  great  diversity 
P>  EADERS  are  requested  to  send  notices  of  Gardening 
L  Appointments  or  Notes  of  Horticultural  Interest, 
intimations  of  Meetings,  Queries,  and  all  Articles  for 
Publication,  officially  to  “  THE  EDITOR,”  at 
12,  Mitra  Court  Chambers,  Fleet  Street, 
London,  E.C.,  and  to  no  other  person  and  to  no  other 
address. 
No.  1156.— Vol.  XLV.,  Third  Series 
