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or scatter poison over food crops, like lettuce.Don't dust your evergreens, coniferous or broad-leaved, with lime; the result will be more serious than any disease.Don't be bashful about asking your State Experiment Station for help. Shrubs—Cultivation. The cultivation of shrubs is rather over-done than underdone. The natural habitat of most woody plantsincludes a ground covering of leaves, forest mold, or herbaceous plantsand grass; thus they are protected summer and winter against droughtand cold. It is not often possible to reproduce such conditions in amade border; but the tendency should be in that direction. While acertain amount of cultivation at first in a shrub border is desirable,especially in new ground, most shrub borders would benefit by beingpermanently mulched, or at least by not being dug over too deeplyafter the roots of the shrubs have become established. The use of |
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