top dressing

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Top-dressing or fertilizer used to enrich the soil may contain such disease germs.

From How Girls Can Help Their Country by Low, Juliette Gordon

Top-dressing the area every fall with manure will tend to make the ground rich enough to afford a very heavy summer growth.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)