. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Seedling from Chrysanthemum Opah. Fi;;. 2. -Bud laken August lii. to mildew, but it is not really very much good, and is unsightly. Far better keep up a fairly dry, well-aired atmosphere at all times, and gef the plants healthy and hard so that a few dull days, more or less, will not harm them. G. Forms and Methi^ds of Applying Lime. H. J. Patterson, of the Maryland Ex- periment Station, has recently reported the results of 14 years' experiments on the relative value of different kinds of caustic, quick, or burnt
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Seedling from Chrysanthemum Opah. Fi;;. 2. -Bud laken August lii. to mildew, but it is not really very much good, and is unsightly. Far better keep up a fairly dry, well-aired atmosphere at all times, and gef the plants healthy and hard so that a few dull days, more or less, will not harm them. G. Forms and Methi^ds of Applying Lime. H. J. Patterson, of the Maryland Ex- periment Station, has recently reported the results of 14 years' experiments on the relative value of different kinds of caustic, quick, or burnt lime (fat or rich stone lime, poor magnesian stone lime, oysier-shell lime), slack lime, gas-house or gas lime, gj'psum or land plaster, ground limestone, marl, and phosphate of lime, as well as soft-coal ashes, when ap- plied in different ways (slaked and un- slaked, as top-dressing, or worked into the soil) and amounts in a common crop rotation (corn, wheat, timothy and clov- er), in connection with green manures (cowpeas) and with stable manure. It was found that in case of the rota- tion named, on a run-down sandy loam, naturally well drained, limed plots gave larger yields than unlimed plots, ^'ifl av- erage net return from liming being $ per acre annually, valuing corn at 40 cents per bushel, corn fodder at 20 cents per hundred-weight, wheat at 90 cents pev bushel, straw at 20 cents per hundred- weight, and hay at 30 cents per hundred- weight. A net return of $ per acre means a profit of $450 to $600 annually when applied to a 100-acre or a 150-acre farm, respectively. A study of the most profitable rate of applying lime showed that an applica- tion of 20 bushels per acre gave only about 25 per cent inore net profit than an application of 10 bushels, and of 60 bushels only about 50 per cent more than 10 bushels, but that the relative profits at the end of four years were in favor of 20 bushels per acre. On unproductive, stiff, rather wet clay soil it was found to
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