Flower-potful

When you go to your florist for a flower-potful of his best plant soil don’t think he is defrauding you if he offers a rough-looking article, and ask for some that is finer.

The quantity to apply is about a tree-inch flower-potful per square yard, or about a half-stone per square pole.

Another person owns a flower-potful of earth on his window-sill—but he has to pay rent for the space it occupies.

Old lawns should be renovated in early spring by covering them with a one-inch layer of equal parts good loam and pulverized peatmoss to which is added a six-inch flower-potful of both bone flour and ground sheep manure.

Before commencing to layer, take the precaution of lightly forking the soil round the parent plant, mixing in a medium flower-potful of loam, sand, and leaf-mould to stimulate the plants.

To this add a three-inch flower-potful of finely ground limestone.