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Show TO GET BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS Soil Should Be Thoroughly Pulverized by Raking Over Until Fine and Mellow as Is Possible. To Insure beaatiful flowers, the soil should be spaded up to the depth of eight or ten inches, early. Nothing Noth-ing more need be done to it. Let it lie as it comes from the spade until, under the action of air, showers, and sunshine, the clods of earth are ready to crumble under the application of the hoe or rake. When you are ready to plant, the ground should be thoroughly thor-oughly pulverized bv raktnc it over and over until it is fine and mellow as possible to make it. This is done to the best advantage with a sharp-toothed sharp-toothed iron rake. The hoe can be used on whatever clods do not readily yield to the rake. hatever manure is used should ba applied now .and worked into the soil. Barnyard manure is best of all. so far A Lovely Daisy Border. as fertilizing elements are concerned, But it is open to the objection of containing con-taining so many weeds seeds that tha work of weeding will be greatly increased in-creased by its use. An excellent substitute sub-stitute is fine bone meal, in the pro- portion of a half pound to each yard square of soil. .If the soil is poor, a large quantity can be used. More can be applied at any time during the season if the plants do not seem to be making a satisfactory growth. Tho first application should be thoroughly mixed with the soil, but later application applica-tion can be scattered over the surface and scratched into the soil- with a weeding hook. |