Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — Fertilizing Moss. [ARTICLE]

Fertilizing Moss.

An called fertilizing moss is offered in New York to take the place of soil in raising plants. The discoverer is a Frenchman, Alfred Dumesna, a sci-. entitle horticulturist. It is claimed that “this wonderful discovery by which plants may be cultivated without earth, or with earth in combination with moss, bids fair to completely revolutionize present methods in the house culture of flowers.” A great variety of plants, it is said, have been experimented upon in this way, and even vegetables raised from the seed to maturity. “Bitt, dear Mrs. Landlady, take you, for Heaven’s sake, one time, this disgusting cat by the neck; she moves to me always nearer, and will directly the head in the plate have.” Landlady—“O my! she is a dear, modest creature! Yon see, the plate out of which you eat, that is her accustomed dish, and she knows it accurately and wants to eat with it!”—U'ennan’ tranalatiQU, ba Courier-Journal