. The chrysanthemum, its culture for professional growers and amateurs; a practical treatise on its propagation, cultivation, training, raising for exhibition and market, hybridizing, origin and history. Fig. 14 FEEDING VERSUS ORDINARY CULTURE—SHOW-ING DIFFERENCE IN VIGOR OF TWO PLANTS OFTHE SAME VARIETY the soil and helps to conserve moisture by checkingsurface evaporation, but it may mislead the groweras to the actual state of moisture in the soil. To avoidgoing astray one must see to it that the top dressing. 46 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM is put on loose and does not pack together, which, inany case
. The chrysanthemum, its culture for professional growers and amateurs; a practical treatise on its propagation, cultivation, training, raising for exhibition and market, hybridizing, origin and history. Fig. 14 FEEDING VERSUS ORDINARY CULTURE—SHOW-ING DIFFERENCE IN VIGOR OF TWO PLANTS OFTHE SAME VARIETY the soil and helps to conserve moisture by checkingsurface evaporation, but it may mislead the groweras to the actual state of moisture in the soil. To avoidgoing astray one must see to it that the top dressing. 46 THE CHRYSANTHEMUM is put on loose and does not pack together, which, inany case, is essential for proper aeration, and whenmaintained in this condition, careful observation willenable the grower to know when water is top dressing should carry the plants along nicelyfor three or four weeks and bring them to the seasonof maximum feeding, when supplies must be liberal,varied in character and of frequent application. Hereagain the plants themselves must be the prompters,but, generally speaking, toward the end of Augustadditional fertilizers in liquid form may be given, oran additional top dressing of some concentratedmanure, and persistent feeding must be kept upthroughout the month of September. In this matterthe condition of the plants must be the main overfed may look pleasing to the eye in theirvigor of gross growth, but this may be growth that willfail in the final test of finishing a perfect must be accompanied with firmness, a harden-ing, or,
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