Show ASHES discourage BUGS i especially among asters I 1 find great value in ashes containing as they do phosphates which tend toward sweetening the soil no parasite will contentedly find courage to live in or enter fich ench an unpleasant soil home ashes are also beneficial in strengthening and stiffening etalka and for this reason I 1 advocate them for gladiolus beds but not mixed with ma nure as some might do dorather rather strewn over the surface sol soil after fertilizers have been well worked in when thus thua treated they seem to release the ammonia of tho the fertilizer relieving it of its most valuable properties |