Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — Treatment of Bulbs. [ARTICLE]

Treatment of Bulbs.

An ounce of nitrate of soda dissolved in four gallons of waiter is said to be a good stimulant for bulbs, to be applied twice a week after the pots are tilled with roots and the flower spikes are fairly visible. A large handful of soot, or about a pint, tied up in a piece of old canvas and immersed in the same quantity of water for a day or two, will give an excellent stimulant; also good and safe is a quarter of a pound of fresh cow-dung mixed in a large garden pot vt water,“Hun usect as rncpiireti. Any of these stimulants will do good, as the whole of them applied alternately will benefit bulbs that needmore sustenance than the soil affords.— Floral World.