Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Removing the Plant from Old Pot. WINDOW GARDENING 541 regularity of other conditions. Do not allow the room temperature to getabove 70 degrees in daytime nor below 50 degrees at night. Watering.—The watering of plants is largely a matter of is offered as good advice that a plant should be watered when it needs it,and contrariwise not when it does not need it. Water copiously once in twodays rather than a little each day, unless the earth has become dried can be
Successful farming : a ready reference on all phases of agriculture for farmers of the United States and Canada . Removing the Plant from Old Pot. WINDOW GARDENING 541 regularity of other conditions. Do not allow the room temperature to getabove 70 degrees in daytime nor below 50 degrees at night. Watering.—The watering of plants is largely a matter of is offered as good advice that a plant should be watered when it needs it,and contrariwise not when it does not need it. Water copiously once in twodays rather than a little each day, unless the earth has become dried can be determined by tapping the flower pot with the finger nail; aclear, ringing sound will indicate dryness; a dull sound shows a dampcondition and water not required. Watering at the roots is not sufficient,strange to say. Plants respond also to a wetting of the leaves. This can. A Well-proportioned be accomplished by turning them half over in a tub and syringing the not allow the sun to play upon wet leaves; it may injure them Plants.—Pot-grown plants respond to feeding up—theapplication once in a while of liquid manure—which is merely stablemanure and water allowed to stand a few days and strained. Apply theliquid once a month for two successive waterings. Bone meal worked in atthe top of a pot i% slow in its action, but beneficial. There are preparedplant-foods which are valuable and convenient, but more expensive thanthese two. Courtesy of The Countrysio; Magazine, N. Y. 542 SUCCESSFUL FARMING Ferns and Foliage Plants.—Plants should fit the purpose for whichthey are intended. If a green and growing plant for house decorationduring the winter months, one that can be moved from place to place, iswanted, the aspidistra, dracaena, cocos and other palms, asparagus plumo-sus, rubber plant, auraucaria (Norfolk Island Pine),
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