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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 2 November 1907, Page 3

•To what do you attribute the curative properties of your springs?" asked a visitor at a health resort. "Well," answered the proprietor, thoughtfully, "I fancy the advertising I have done lias had something to do with it." Tripper: "I suppose you know all the sights down here." Boatman: "Wall, mostly. There is always new ones coming down." It is stated in an English horticultural journal that crushed sheila are a good fertilising material. When used as part drainage and mixed with soil for potting plants, very satisfactory re-nlts are obtained. Jt has been found that in growing chrysanthemums for exhibition purposes, a solid mass of routs had been made where an inch of crushed shells were placed. Shells in a whole stale should not lie used for drainage. as they decompose slowly, and tl\>- soil is apt to collect in the inside »f them, nnd sn impede vlrainag.e For fruit trees and vines, crushed shells may be \iscd Willi great advantage, cither mixed with tho soil, or ns a top 'dreeslog. .i-i ,• ...... {jp«