A GOOD LIQUID MANURE FOR FLOWERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 281, 24 September 1889, Page 3

A GOOD LIQUID MANURE FOR FLOWERS.

A Bai.-n.dre norist send* the Hoston Journal of Chemistry the following formula for liquid manure for flowers. The material, may be had at auy Macksmltli shop j—Put one bushel of the clippings from horses' hoofs into a barrel, and fill it up with water. Let it stand for aweek, when it ife W&dy for use. A^ttlv it With a watering pot. *»_1 bedding plants can be watered with this liquid every other day if thy are hot pot bound. Bepotted plants shottld be.wAtered once a week Until they have plenty of working roots to take up the manure; It will also be found e_#elhMt lor hard wooded pliant, if Used once or twice a week. Two or three weeks after the plants have been watered, with the rtiatlui'e •the foliage generally bhanges from a green to a gulden yellow, moving _Mh the stem down to a point of the leaf, which however, lasts only for a few weeks, when' it changes to a dark glossy green. Plants under this watering grow very strong ; the flowers are very large and bright in color. Plants thus treated can be kept in very small pots for a long time without" being transplanted. This is especially advantageous to the market gardener, who ' can soil his plants in three or four inch pots, while ho would have to shift them

Into live or six inch if he used rich soil alone. Flowers watered with j this liquid manure will bring 25 per J cent more than otherwis * ; besides | being in small plots, they are lighter, oan be i acked closer, and are easier to be handled. The fertilizer is not a stimulant, but a plant food, and plants that are watered with it, if I planted out, will continue growing ( and keep in good growth, which I cannot bo aid • f guano It is as j powerful as guano, as quick in ac- ! tion, and more lasting. It wil* not ! do tie^lightesthardf'tfothefoli ge ; I most oji4P%[iu2^.i^res foli<tgl*ltoJ ttfc^o^MMME with it. It forms no crust on the j pots or soil. It is cheaper than any | other good fertilise which is, >sedin liquid form The chips need be renewed or replaced only twice a yearpwhije the; waterman be with:drftwfij L eriery | v j day . f^VJien liquid guiatio-is ) used too Strong it will cause the i lants to drop all their leaves. 'I his liquid will not, even if used once or twice a day for a short time.