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Mushrooms
Take partially dry horse manure and lay it in a heapto ferment. Turn and mix it well every few days, and when well and equally fermented, which will be from ten to fourteen days, make it into a bed 4...
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Musk (Mimulus Moschatus)
A well-known sweet-scented, half-hardyperennial, well adapted for pot culture. A moist, shady position is most congenial to it when placed in the border. Seed sown in autumn make fine, early-flowering...
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Mustard and Cress
For sowing in the open choose a shady border, makethe surface fine and firm, and water it well before putting down the seed. Let the seed be sown thickly at intervals of seven or fourteen days from Ma...
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Myosotis (Forget-me-not)
The perennial varieties of thesebeautiful plants grow best in moist places, such as the edges of ponds or ditches; but they also do well in pots among Alpine plants. Most of them may be increased by r...
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Myrica Gala (Candleberry Myrtle)
This hardy deciduous shrub isvery ornamental, and its foliage is scented like the myrtle. It will grow in light, rich soil, but thrives best in peat, and may be increased by seeds or layers. May is it...
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Myrtle (Myrtus)
Will strike readily if the cuttings be placed in abottle of water till roots grow, and then planted; or young cuttings will strike in sandy soil under a hand-glass. They succeed best in a mixture of s...
Nov 11, 2026
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