Improved Means or Method of Supplying Liquid or Solid Manure Stimulants to Plants, Bulbs, Flowers, Cut Bloom, Growing Herbs, Trees, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means or Method of Supplying Liquid or Solid Manure
Stimulants to Plants, Bulbs, Flowers, Cut Bloom, Growing
Herbs, Trees, and the like.
I CHARLES EDWARD BOOTY of 18, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
Horticultural Sundryman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for object to prepare chemical and other manure or enriching
substances in the pure drug state or otherwise, in such manner as to be particularly
suitable to the special requirements of one or each particular or different species
or class of plant, bulb, flower, cut bloom, growing herb, tree, or other vegetable
product whether contained or planted in earth or other substance, or placed in
water or other liquid and whether in pots, glasses, or receptacles, or in the open
ground; further in accordance with this invention plants, and the like, may be
supplied with manure or stimulants without the application thereof being unsightly;
wasteful, or unpleasant to the smell; and, again in accordance therewith the
plant feeding or reviving substances or solution may be colored distinctively in
different colors to represent the respective kind of plant, bulb, flower, cut bloom,
growing herb, or tree, that said plant feeding or reviving substances or solution is
specially appropriate or applicable to.
According to this my invention the pure chemical or other manure or enriching
substance is compressed or moulded or otherwise prepared into solid forms of any
given size, or weight, either in the tabloid, lozenge pill, conical or other shape
or form desired. The forms (double acting or otherwise) may be of any desired
chemical strength to suit the special kind, or class, of plant, bulb, flower, cut
bloom, growing herb, tree &c. to which they are to be applied. The solid forms
herein alluded to (whether composed of pure chemicals or otherwise) may be
applied direct to the roots of the plants by being placed or planted under the
surface of the solid. They will then gradually dissolve when water or other
liquid or moisture is applied to the surface of the soil or otherwise by which
means the roots of the said plants or trees are gradually supplied with nutriment.
Or the compressed or solid forms may be dissolved in a given quantity of water
or other appropriate liquid or medium to produce a scentless liquid plant feeding
or reviving stimulant to any given or desired strength to suit requirements.
- Bulbs, cut bloom, flowers, or plants contained in glasses, pots, or receptacles
and living in or partly in and on water or other liquid may have the solid forms
applied to the roots or stems by the forms being placed in the said glasses, pots, or
receptacles, by which means the forms dissolve and so stimulate, revive, or preserve
the said bulb, cut bloom, flower, or plants in water.
This liquid form of stimulant may be put up in bottles and sold and may be
colored as aforesaid with reference to the solid forms in distinctive colors for
different purposes or requirements. Again, in accordance with this invention,
moss, fibre, wool, or other such materials may be prepared containing a per-
centage of fertilising reviving, or preserving substance or material for the purpose
of stimulating growing seedling or other plants, bulbs, herbs &c. and preserving

page_text: and reviving the same, as well as for preserving cut bloom, or foliage and the like
for exhibition purposes transit or otherwise.
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Dated this 3rd day of November 1894.
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HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improved Means or Method of Supplying Liquid or Solid Manure
Stimulants to Plants, Bulbs, Flowers, Cut Bloom, Growing
Herbs, Trees, and the like.
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I, CHARLES EDWARD BOOTY, of 18 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, Loudon, E.C.,
Horticultural Sundriesman," do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-,
In accordance with this invention chemical and other manure or enriching
substances are prepared in the pure drug state or otherwise, in such manner as to be
particularly suitable to the special requirements of one or each particular or
different species or class of plant, bulb, flower, cut bloom, growing herb, tree, or
other vegetable product, whether contained or planted in earth or other substance
or placed in water, and whether in pots, glasses, or receptacles, or in the open
ground; further, in accordance with this invention, plants in pots and the like may
be supplied with manure or stimulants without the application thereof being unsightly,
wasteful, or unpleasant to the smell; and, again, in accordance therewith the plant
feeding or reviving substance or solution may be colored distinctively in different
colors to represent the respective kind of plant, bulb, flower, cut bloom, growing
herb, or tree, that said plant-feeding or reviving substance or solution is specially
appropriate for, or applicable to.
According to this invention the pure chemical or other manure or enriching
substance is compressed or moulded into, or otherwise prepared and made in, solid
forms of any given or desired size and weight. The shape may, as desired, be
either a lozenge, pill, conical, or any other convenient, or required form.
The forms (double acting or otherwise) may be of any desired chemical strength
to suit the special kind, or class, of plant, bulb, flower, cut bloom, growing herb,
tree &c. to which they are to be applied. The solid forms, or composition herein
alluded to (whether composed of pure chemicals or otherwise) may be applied
direct to the roots of the plants by being placed or planted under the surface of
the soil. They will then gradually dissolve when water or other liquid or moisture
is applied to the surface of the soil, or otherwise, by which means the roots of the
said plants or trees are gradually supplied with nutriment.
The solid forms or "feeders above described are clean, scentless, very handy,
and highly effective, they are easily applied and will be found perfectly safe for all
plants, (a specialité for ferns & palms) and should entirely supersede the unsatis-
factory way of applying powdered fertilizers to the surface of the soil, which powder
when water is applied dissolves all at once, and is very liable to injure the plants.
In accordance with this invention the "feeder," or composition as aforesaid, is
applied by being placed under the surface of the soil the nutriment is then by
moisture conveyed gradually to the roots, giving extraordinary vigour, structural
strength, and a dark glossy green foliage to the plant, and producing blooms and
fruit in abundance, also giving brilliancy of color quite unattainable from soil
alone.
When so desired the compressed or solid forms, or composition may be dissolved
in a given quantity of water or other appropriate liquid or medium to produce

page_text: a scentless liquid plant feeding or reviving stimulant to any given or desired
strength to suit requirements. This liquid form of stimulant may be put up in
bottles, or the like, and may be colored as aforesaid in distinctive colors for
different purposes or requirements.
Again, in accordance with this invention, moss, fibre, wool, or other such
materials may be prepared containing a percentage of fertilizing, reviving, or
preserving, substance or material for the purpose of stimulating growing seedlings
or other plants, bulbs, herbs, and the like and for preserving cut bloom in water
or foliage and the like for exhibition purposes, transit, or otherwise. Bulbs, cut
bloom, flowers, or plants contained in glasses, pots, or receptacles, and living in or
partly in and on water or other liquid, may have the solid forms, liquid stimulant,
or prepared moss applied thereto by the "feeders" or the said moss, or liquid stimulant
being placed in the glasses, pots, or receptacles, by which means the forms also moss,
partly dissolve and so stimulates revives, or preserves the said bulbs, cut bloom,
flowers, or plants, in water, or otherwise.
The plant food, or chemical composition in the pure drug state, as previously
alluded to, may consist, and be composed, of ammonia sulphate; neutral phosphate
of lime; nitrate of potash; gypsum ammonia phosphate; in proportions as desired.
The exact proportions are immaterial efficacy being obtained by a simple blending
of the component parts whatever their ratio one to the other. These ingredients
are carefully ground, and mixed together, and are then compressed or moulded into
solid forms by machinery. These solid forms are partly soluble and may be dissolved
in water for the purpose of a liquid plant food.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved means or method of preparing and supplying liquid, or solid
manure stimulants to plants, bulbs, flowers, cut bloom, growing herbs, trees, and
the like; substantially as herein before mentioned.
2. Compressing, moulding, or otherwise preparing and making, pure chemical
or other manure or enriching substance in solid forms, distinctively colored or
otherwise, for the purpose of application direct to the roots of plants, flowers, herbs,
trees in pots or otherwise and other vegetable produce, by being placed or planted
under the surface of the soil and there being gradually dissolved by moisture, all
substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
3. As a plant feeder the preparation of moss, fibre, wool, or other such material,
containing a percentage or proportion of fertilizing, reviving, or preserving sub-
stance or material substantially as set forth and for the purpose of stimulating
growing seedlings, or other plants, bulbs, herbs, and the like, and preserving and
reviving the same; as well as for preserving cut bloom, bulbs or foliage in water, and
the like, for exhibition purposes, transit, or otherwise.
Dated this 31st day of August 1895.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.