Identifier: americanhomr03newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York, Munn and Co
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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crave, they deteriorate rapidly. We read, frequently,of bulb-growing in Holland, where the soil is literally a bedof sand, and from this we get an impression that they oughtto grow exceptionally well in our soil, which is superior, inall ways, to pure sand; but were we to visit Holland andsee the great quantities of manure that the florists mix withthe sand in which their bulbs are grown, we would speedilyrevise our ideas about lack of fertility there. No growersof bulbs are more skilful than the Hollanders, and they neverlose sight of the fact that in order to grow bulbs well theymust feed them liberally with the best of food. The ideal fertilizer for bulbs is cow-manure—so old thatit is black, and crumbles readily under the application of thehoe. If it can not be obtained, bone-meal can be substituted,in the proportion of a teacupful to a square yard of earth,measuring by the surface if the soil is of ordinary fertility.If not, use more. No exact rule can be given, as soils differ
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A Bed of Paper-white Narcissus October, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 245 so greatly in quality. If cow-manure is used, let it be in the by the spade, and is not worked over afterward before plant-proportion of a third to two-thirds the original soil. Mix ing, they will not do well. It is a good plan to work the soilit in until it is thoroughly incorporated with the soil of the bed. over and over until it is as mellow ;is it is possible to make it.

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