Liquid Manure Needed

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 14 (Supplement)

Liquid Manure Needed

lI7ATERING, unless in a poor VV soil, will give the roots all the necessary nourishment. ■ "Liquid manure given to strong growers that carry coarse-petalled flowers only accentuate tile faults and often spoils the blooms altogether. Par rather have smaller flowers that are shapely and pleasing than grow those whicli are coarse and ugly* You can give liquid manure to advantage in light volcanic or sandy soil that, leaches out quickly. Cow manure and soot provide the ideal liquid. Make it weak rather than strong, and give no oftener than once in four days. Never give _ liquid manure to a partially dry dahlia. Wet the ground first and then let the fertiliser be given .once or twice a weelc. Where the growths are straight and strong, and the land rich loam, very little more than water should be necessary. _• A safe dahlia manure can be made by using four ounces of sulphate of ammonia, eight ounces superphosphate, and twenty gallons of water. Use the liquid three days after "brewing." The plants producing specimen flowers will take twovto four gallons a week. Be sure that your plants require stimulating before giving the above. It is quite ail easy matter to overfeed.