Commercial Violet Culture

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is continued until the first layer of the heap is of the desired width and length, when a second layer is formed in the same way. After finishing each 5. -- Mixing soil. Breaking and pulverizing the sod preparatory to putting it down with layers of manure. layer the bone meal may be sown thinly over the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: is continued until the first layer of the heap is of the desired width and length, when a second layer is formed in the same way. After finishing each 5. -- Mixing soil. Breaking and pulverizing the sod preparatory to putting it down with layers of manure. layer the bone meal may be sown thinly over the surface. Put it on about as thick as is done in sanding or sawdusting a floor. Working in this way, two active men can put into a heap forty to fifty yards of soil a day, or a sufficient quantity for four thousand to five thousand plants, figuring that the beds contain six inches of fresh made soil and that the manure and turf are one hundred to two hundred feet apart. It is seen, therefore, that each cubic yard of the mixture is sufficient for one hundred plants, allowing a depth of six inches for the beds. When soil is purchased, or even when it is obtained from one's own place, it is never exactly alike any two years. For this reason it is a good plan to experiment a little before the general mixing is commenced. It takes very little time to make up several lots of soil in different proportions, using a water pail to make the measurements. For instance, we have soil from two localities, one of which is moderately heavy and the other light, and also well rotted manure which we make up in the following combinations: (1) Light soil, one part. Heavy soil, three parts Manure, one part. (2) Light soil, two parts. Heavy soil, two parts. Manure, one part. (3) Light soil, two parts. Heavy soil, three parts. Manure, one part. (4) Heavy soil, four parts. Manure, one part. By using a pail, only small quantities of soil and manure are needed, but there will be sufficient material in each case after a thorough mixing to tell what the...