Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — To Raise Plants. [ARTICLE]

To Raise Plants.

A lady,, whose beautiful plants are the delight of her life and the envy of all her acquaintances, revealed the secret of her success for the benefit of the readers of the Evening Post the other day. The soil is, she says, about two-thirds, good garden soil and the rest is sand. It is kept light and loose about the roots; they are watered as they appear to need it, and not according to any particular rule; but the chief reason for their wonderful growth and bloom is this ; “When any of the leaves wither and fall, instead of picking them up and throwing . them away, I make little rolls of them and tuck them down ip the earth and let them decay; and tins is tl>e only fertilizer I have ever used. This,”" she added, modestly, “seems i<s be nature’s way. And the plants that havo ;the afternoon sun onlv. grow'and rival those that .have Warning mm. ’ ■• ‘- 0*» iV* ‘ ■ In ancient days the great precept was “know thyself.;’’ in modern times it'has been supplanted by the more fashionable ipaxiih r “know thy neighbor and everything about him. Jo/msjiM.. ' rt-ii —:—U : ; • • 4 *. . „ » . 1 "l . • ..r. 14 fl lfl 4- ebp filflpAVj dyer of a silver minejwqrth at least a million .dgllys i& alwfliji ibady, to ,8611 out for ssCffl in cash and a barrel of whisky, y ’ *