BONES FOR SHRUBS
A lack of phosphates in the soil is often the reason why wisterias and shrubs fail to flower. An easy and most efficacious way of supplying this lack is to dig some crushed bone Into the soil around the roots of the trees. These bones will give them all the phosphates they require for years, as bones disintegrate slowly, and the plants can obtain food from them as their needs demand it. This continual provisions of phosphatic nourishment also deepens the colour-.and size of blooms. Bones are an excellent food to give any flowering tree or shrub that is chary of blossoming.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 18
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105BONES FOR SHRUBS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 153, 25 March 1938, Page 18
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