. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. '«-r.^V'-r'5 >;s-r lOi The Flalists' Review March 5, l!tl4. FORCING LILACS SECOND TIME. Can pot-grown lilac, Marie Legraye, ^hich has been forced into bloom this year, be forced again next year for Easter? If so, will you please give me directions for this? C. E. K. The lilacs are of no value whatever to force the next season, but if you prune them back fairly well after flow- ering, plant outdoors in April and leave until the fall of 1915, the plants can be lifted, potted and forced again with success. C. W. SUBSTITUTE FOE WOOD ASHES. Can you t
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. '«-r.^V'-r'5 >;s-r lOi The Flalists' Review March 5, l!tl4. FORCING LILACS SECOND TIME. Can pot-grown lilac, Marie Legraye, ^hich has been forced into bloom this year, be forced again next year for Easter? If so, will you please give me directions for this? C. E. K. The lilacs are of no value whatever to force the next season, but if you prune them back fairly well after flow- ering, plant outdoors in April and leave until the fall of 1915, the plants can be lifted, potted and forced again with success. C. W. SUBSTITUTE FOE WOOD ASHES. Can you tell me whether there is any substitute for wood ashes? It is hard to get the ashes in this locality, exeept in large quantities. ocality, exeept H. C. J. ^tfT '• I do not know of any fertilizer which is a real substitute for wood ashes. They contain both phosphoric acid and potash. The average Canadian hard- wood ashes contain to pounds of phosphoric acid per 100 pounds, and three to five pounds, occasionally more, of potash per 100 pounds. To get this equivalent in other fertilizers, you could purchase kainite, which averages thir- teen to fifteen pounds of potash per 100 pounds, and basic slag, which averages sixteen to seventeen pounds of phos- phoric acid per 100 pounds. These are about the same price as wood ashes, and, as they are at the same time rela- tively as valuable, an application of the two in the proportions, approximately, of one-tenth as much of phosphoric acid as potash, would give you practically an equivalent of wood ashes. The retail cash cost of kainite at market centers is $12 to $14 per ton, and of basic slag, practically the same. Dealers, however, usually charge a little over these prices. If you use 200 pounds of basic slag and 1,800 pounds of kainite, you will get a fairlv good substitute for wood ashes. C. W. SOOT FBOM SOFT COAL. Does the burnt, pink soot whicli comes out of the combustion chamber of a boiler contain any ingredients whi
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