The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-05
SCOT in Horticulture.

SOOC Is q UcSplScU CnluS, ~ WulCu
everyone lifts up his or her hands
in horror. Yet tits one of our SCOT
most valuable fertilizers, and for boost
ing insects it stands very high. The SCOT
from soft coal is the best, aud any one
who wastes it wastes wealth; for we
need every ounce in the gardens and
fields of the country. This is no within
or theory; its uses are we'll known to
every practical gardener. Our cabbage
fields and gardens are all visited with
the common whitish-yellow butterflies
each year, yetthis insect is easily driven
to seek its food in some other place if
SCOT is sprinkled over the plants on
mornings, or when they are wet. The
writer had once charge of garden
where it had been unfortunate in the
production of any of the cabbage family,
from caulihowers to Brussel sprouts.
SCOT solved the problem. The opera
tons were to first scatter thin coat of
SCOT on the soil, where the seed had 70
be sown. This was worked in so as not
to touch the seed, either with rake or
fork, for it is fatal to seed if touched
when terminating, but after the roots
begin to spread they like it. The wire
worm that makes all the cabbage tribe
form a club-shape at the bottom of the
stem and stops them from forming
proper roots rarely ever does this mis-
chief. Our professors have been try
ing to make "club root" in the cabbage
tribe disease, but if SCOT is used as de-
scribed the disease is seldom or never
seen. After cabbage plants of any kind
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heading, if their roots and stems. right
up to the leaves, are dipped in a paint
made of SCOT. soil, and water just thick
enough to stick to them. few ground
insects will attack them. Land where
carrots, turnips. or onions have to be
sown is always benefited if good Dress
ing OF SCOT is applied. The turnip crop
is an important one in England, and
were it not for free use of SCOT it
could not be grown, nor could wheat;
and it is a common thing to see train
of SCOT leaving the large towns for the
market gardening and farming districts.
Here Is a new source of employment
for American citizens, and if it were
collected as in Eng land it would sell.
If rose. bushes were dressed about the
first week in, May with SCOT, when
they are moist, we should not see those
bad-lookingsroses or bushes that we so
often see now. that look, in fact, as if
they had been burned when the little
caterpillar hae.feasted on them q few
days. The caterpillar that goes by the
name of roller-hy, because it rolls itself
up in the leaves ofroses and other things
and eats into the buds of roses. when
feasting is driven away by SCOT sprinkled
oyer the bushes freely about the latter
end of April or beginning Of May, as it
is about that time that the eggs begin
to hatch that have been laid on the
bushes, and it is well to repeat the dose
about a week before the roses are likely
to open. The SCOT will generally be
pretty we'll off before the roses are fit
to gather, and ladies will not be an
noyed by finding q big. ugly grub inside
their handsome flowers; the smell of
the SCOT is soon gone. when it is ex-
posed to the atmosphere, as its smell is
chiefly ammonia. which is very volatile.
SCOT increases the color of the leaves
and flowers of most plants, and gives
vigorous growth.
A gentleman at indianapolis, who
was advised to use SCOT to drive insects
from his plants, reports that his wife
thought that he had killed her pets, and
after few days he thought the plants
grew so fast that the insects could not
catch them, and now he gets barrel
of SCOT from . round-house to use on
his garden. every week.
The pretty, yel'ow-stripped bug that
attacks our squ,shes and cucumbers
has no affinity for SCOT or ashes,
and soon leaves for other places, where
it don't get such seasoning at its
meals. -
Apply SCOT whenever the leaves of
plants are moist, and four or five dress
ings in year, are not too much. SCOT
and flour Of sulphur in equal parts
mixed in thin flour paste make
paint for all kinds of trees that does not
iniure them, but makes them grow a.
it washes of, aud will keep insects and
rabbits, mice, OF other vermin from
them If applied to the stems three or
four times q yeat; and mildew will
seldom be. seen when this mixture is
frequently used ON vines or other things
subject to it.-Cor. Chicago Times.
Drinks made from fresh or pre-
served fruits are sometimes useful in
levers. Khubarb tea is very refresh
ing spring beverage. Slice about two
pounds of rhubarb, and boil for a quar-
ter of an hour in quart of water; strain
the liquor into . jug, adding small
quantity of lemon peel, and some sugar
to taste; when cold it is fit for use.
Apple water may be made in the same
manner. The apples should be peeled
and cored. Sugar should not be added
to either Of the above until after the
liquor is reinoved from the fire. In the
absence d fresh fruit. apleasant bever-
age may fbesprepared. BY stirring suffi-
cient fasPbsrry jam or currant jelly