. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. for the plants to growin, greater success might be secured thanhas as yet been attained someof thoseusing it. What one would look for in anostrum of this sort would be strikingresults beyond what can be had from the use of ordinary soils and wonderful results can hardly besaid to have been produced hitherto withJadoo. I may mention some plants whichgrown in i)ure Jadoo have done well withme. Calartiums, fancy leaved, grown iufour and five-inch iiols,havem
. The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general. for the plants to growin, greater success might be secured thanhas as yet been attained someof thoseusing it. What one would look for in anostrum of this sort would be strikingresults beyond what can be had from the use of ordinary soils and wonderful results can hardly besaid to have been produced hitherto withJadoo. I may mention some plants whichgrown in i)ure Jadoo have done well withme. Calartiums, fancy leaved, grown iufour and five-inch iiols,havemade largerand finer colored leaves and altogethermuch larger plants than I have ever seenin the same sized pots with the usual rest. Some other members of the samefamily, such as and coloca-sias show a wonderful developmentgrown in pure Jadoo and fed occasion-ally with liquid manuie. Caiinasfed lii)-erally do well in it, so do gladioli andgloxinias. Wncn used in mixing with loam andsand in i*)roportion to suit the i-equire-nients of other than the above plants Ihave found it to answer very well; and. Corner in Show House of Phil. Alburger, Philadelphia, at Easier. potting compost. These plants afterbeing started were given waterwithout reference to the moisture condi-tion of the Jadoo at the time of water-ing, and after being fairly well developedthey were; watered copiously at leasttwice a day during warm weather, and especially is it valuable in covering seeds,either by itself or mixed with other of several hundred different speciesof plant seeds sown this Spring markedsuccess has attended the germination ofthose covered with Jadoo. For legu-minous and other hard seeds which are
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