. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. PLAIN Perdoz. 8-inch $ 10-inch 12-inch 13-inch 14-inch 16-inch 18-inch FANCY Perdoz. 12-inch $ 13-inch 14-inch 15-inch 16-inch 18-inch SHEET MOSS IN BAGS, EXTRA CHOICE, $ PER BAG Michigan Cot Flower Exchaoge 38-40 Broadway, DETROIT, Fancy Mention The Review when you write. AGEBATUMS FOB BOBDEBS. Can you tell me what sort of agera- tII111 is best for planting for a border? J have tried several kinds, but they grow too tall and wild and do not have many flowers. I planted Littl
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. PLAIN Perdoz. 8-inch $ 10-inch 12-inch 13-inch 14-inch 16-inch 18-inch FANCY Perdoz. 12-inch $ 13-inch 14-inch 15-inch 16-inch 18-inch SHEET MOSS IN BAGS, EXTRA CHOICE, $ PER BAG Michigan Cot Flower Exchaoge 38-40 Broadway, DETROIT, Fancy Mention The Review when you write. AGEBATUMS FOB BOBDEBS. Can you tell me what sort of agera- tII111 is best for planting for a border? J have tried several kinds, but they grow too tall and wild and do not have many flowers. I planted Little Hhio Star and the customers made the <()iiiplaint that it grew too rank and was a foot tall. Let me know which is tho best. E. B. Try Ageratum Stella Gurney. This is a splendid dwarf variety. Princess ]'anline is also good. C. W. BONE. Bone meal is prepared by boiling the raw bones under sufficient steam press- ure to remove the fat, after which they are ground into a somewhat gritty meal which contains from four to five per €ent of nitrogen and forty-five to forty- eight per cent of phosphate. Though the fat has been removed, the carti- lage remains, and this has the effect of retarding the breaking up of the particles after the meal has been ap- plied to the soil, so that it is considered a slow-acting manure. As, however, used on garden soils, which are usually ^jf an acid character, or as an in- srcdient of potting compost, where the roots are brought into intimate contact \vith it, the action is much quicker, 'liough even then the results of its use fhc second year after application 'Ijhould be little less than the first year, "here, however, the soil is sandy or I'oor in humus it would be better to use '\hat is known as bone flour, the differ- 'iice between this and bone meal being that the boiling of the raw bones is inducted under such a high pressure 'I steam, some fifty pounds to the quare inch, that not only is the fat '•amoved, but the whole of the car
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