New-York tribune., 1906-05-20
NEW PLANT INVIGORATOR
4bumdant7y Supplies Fired Nitro
gen and Moisture Gathering
and Retaining 4 reuc;os
and Retaining agencies.

An English chemist, in this country. has,
after thirteen years incessant and toisoe study
and experiment, evolved a formula which is in
the opinion of many persons Of more intrinsic
value 20 than the aIchemists drean-trans-
mutation Of rnetals-coud prove we're IL ever real
zed il IS one which supplies both food and drink
to plant life. with maximum Of effect and at a
minimum Of expense. Just how much this means to
mankind is startlingly shown by Professor Robert
Kennedy Duncan, in an article entitled Chemistry
and the Worlds Food" in the April ''Harper's' s.
After describing the important role fixed nitro
gen plays in supporting and moving the forces OF
nature. he proceeds: 1.-THE invaluable fixed nitrogen
which have within and which we are con-
tinuousy using up. must continually restore
In order to do this eat II. We eat it in the
form of animal food of certain plant products
such as wheaton bread. But plants. and animals
too. depend upon the soil for every Of nitro
gen they contain, and the soil in its turn has won
it from the reluctant air through the slow accumu-
latons Of the washing rains from the lightning
OF a million strikes or through slow transtoFma-
tions by billions of nitrfyng organisms through
what. far concerned, s infinite time.
Not only so. but the valuable nitrogen containing
substances we employ IN civilization in the
parlous position Of depending upon the soil
Every cannon shot disperses in instant the fixed
nitrogen which It required millions OF microbes
centuries to accumulate We hlch this nitrogen
from the soil immensely faster than 1t is restored
by natural process and the land grows sick and
barren ARE and Ire refuses fuse to grow our crops ,.nz
is. as Professor Duncan shows, the returning
it has been So rut6essy robbed ProTidentiaIy as
he points out. modern science has, within recent
years, discovered method OF drawing upon tnat
yast reservoir Of free nitrogen, our atmosphere
vertine this free into aged nitrogen t6is article
has naught do; the question here considered is as
the least expense Of time labor and money This
It is confidently asserted, is accomplished by the be
fore mentioned English chemists admiXtuTe which
has been christened 'Bonora-' To begin with It is
not open to the objection 50 often urged against
cent only is plant sustenance, the balance being
soil. Again. the of transportation and
storing charges Bonora nfty pounds OF which Il is
ia vastly more economical-as it is also In its ap
Bonora, an odorless and stainless compound is all
plant fo9a-plant food in its most concentrated
several times more nitrogen than any other ferti
potash as Well Fifty pounds OF tRe powder make
14GO gallons of fertilizer when the requisite quantity
of water is added and this saturated solution ap-
piled with hose or sprinkler in waters and fertEes ,
the Pad be0ecent 0s ouav Of both gahern
moisture from SOIL and atmosphere and retaining
for moisture has it. it is next to impossible make
n % damp WeetheT The maESgeF OF the Fox HIS HIS
he made two a@PRLcationms @ I MS OF Bonora to green's
perfect shape for the metropolitan championship nip
summer heat and came out OF the following winter
in first class shape"
hs gtToug bes TOO. t AN, S
thus q s.Iots' plant aDe 70 GEL[S ,T
II does greatly increase crops, both to quantity
and quality, is testified to by Mr Jacob H. Schiffs
gardener at Sea Bright, n. J.. who has used II on
palms. primulas and goranas he reports that the
first are 20 per cent and the last two 50 per cent
improved: that the palms have beautiful green
foliage, and that the primulas and ROranas grow
larger flowers. and hold them longer
! That II causes plants 20 mature with great ra-
/ United States of1cial who tried it on melons and
tomatoes; although he had been three weeks behind
his neighbOrs in planting these, he had them on
his table three days ahead Of them. Samuel I.
il caulifiowers under glass. one-half only of the
bed. however. being treated with BonOra. and the
remainder with other fertilizers: the BonOra fer
tzed caulihowers headed UP and marketed
two weeks earlier than the first.
The Hon. Cornelius ElissS gardener at Oceanlc'
N j. has carried of prizes with ferns. chrysanthe-
/ NUNS and lettuce that owed their triumph TO
Bonora. He is quite enthusiastic. and says; .!
have been using Bonora for the last two years and
the longer II and the better become acQuaint-
ed with It the like II. / grow my vegetables
under glass with this fertilizer with splendid re-
suits Indeed. its effect upon house plants is said
by those who have eXDerimented with il be little
short of marvellous Mrs T. P Shepard Of Provi-
various greenhouse and stove plants and found the
results very pleasing: its effect palms really
wonderful. giving them an appearance had not
. been able to produce with other fertilizers
Although this plant "elxiF of life has been IN
troduced only about year and haif its use mas
become widely distributed. II Is in at FredeF-
lex W. Vanderoits country seat at HYDE Park-on-
the Hudson by the Pennsylvania Railroad; on the
in the Capitol grounds, at Washington; IN city
parks in palatial houses here. and in fact. Wner-
/ ever horticultural intelligence goes hand IN han0
with the love OF plants and flowers. and wherever
agriculture has learned the value Of Scentinc IN
tensiVe farming