The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . pots, and they are easily handled. first be potted from thumb pots, or flats, to3-inch, then 4 and 6-inch and into the floweringpots—8-inch pot, one bloom; 9 and 10-inch pots,two blooms. The plants must never be allowed tobecome potbound: always shift as soon as they arewell rooted, and keep them growing compost for 3 and 4-inch pots should be putthrough a coarse screen. Add to each bushel a four-inch potful of bone meal; also a 4-inch potful ofgood fe
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . pots, and they are easily handled. first be potted from thumb pots, or flats, to3-inch, then 4 and 6-inch and into the floweringpots—8-inch pot, one bloom; 9 and 10-inch pots,two blooms. The plants must never be allowed tobecome potbound: always shift as soon as they arewell rooted, and keep them growing compost for 3 and 4-inch pots should be putthrough a coarse screen. Add to each bushel a four-inch potful of bone meal; also a 4-inch potful ofgood fertilizer, with a sprinkling of soot. This canbe used for the 6-inch also, only do not chop thesod so fine, addin< some pulverized sheep the final potting use the same as for the benches. Feeding the Plants. After the plants are eight or ten weeks in thepots or benches they will have exhausted the limitedamount of plant food and have filled the space withroots. Then artificial feeding will liave to be resortedto. Watch the plants carefully, and one will soonbe able to judge when to start JOHN New Rose^ Miss Kate Moultou The leaves may be smaller and the stem may notappear so strong. Feeding can be applied in a liquidor solid form. If as a liquid use sheep, cow or horsemanure; my preference being sheep. Steep in abarrel, or tank, in a bag. This will be too strongand will have to be diluted in water. Begin weak,say, when the liquid is of the color of weak coffee,and increase in strength. A top dressing of cow anure can be given, broken up about the size ofa walnut; do not press it firmly. The end of Augustand September feeding must be attended to withthe strictest care, varying the kind of food. Ichthe-mic guano, manure, and Clays fertilizermake a good change from barnyard manure. Nitrateof soda is a good stimulant, but it must be used care-fully—one pound in fifty gallons of water is sulphate of ammonia in the s
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