HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 15 February 1906, Page 4

HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

Give the orchard all the potash that it needs. Coarse, raw manure is not fit for the garden. Toads, frogs and lizards are useful in the garden. The gem melon Is the best seller In the market. Prune the quince tree and train it to a single stem. Missouri sold $19,500,000 worth of fruit last year. Extra work in getting a good seed bed pays in .garden work. Cut off all the bruised roots when planting a tree, but do not mutilate the top. A neglected orchard incumbers land that might be used profitably for othsr purposes. A late crop of cabbage is easily grown, for the seed can be planted In the open ground. Five acres in cucumbers for pickles will ordinarily pay ns much as all the refit of the farm.—Western Plowman. reedlag PlU> to Plants. The following note by Mr. Paul, of Chefihunt, on the method employed by M. Georges Truiffent wf administering artificial food to plants is of considerable interest to horticulturist*. After an analysis of the ash of the living plant, the necessary salts for a given tiiu<* »uch ft# mix months, are weighed oat and enclosed in a mated cover to form what ia c«ll«d a “pftl,” which is preaumably asserted in the pot, diffusion of the salts taking place through the folds of the metal, and the thicker the metal the slower the diffusion. As the salts dissolve end disappear they are replaced by a core which etqvands until it «ompietaly ’fills the “pill.” The salt* have no action on the metal cover which remalftß firm and hard. It ia stated that the solubility of the Balts can be so regulated that a “pill” may be made to Ifist three or six months, an may be de- } sired. By this method of feeing large well-colored plants are grown in pot* •f less than half the usual size.—Gardeners’ Chronicle. Charcoal for L»«rai. The dark color of charcoal makes it. absorb heat, and thus warm the land to which it is applied as a dressing. It may also have considerable manorial value, as the charcoal easily absorbs ammonia, and if soaked in strong mature water from a compost it will carry tb« ammonia to the lawn ift less offensive form than in the manure, which is ofeen used for that purpose.