Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-05-06
SCOT in Horticulture.

cNCTyOuc lillS up Ills VI neT
in horror. Yet it is one of our scot
most valuable fertilizers, and for boost
ing insects it stands very high. The SCOT
from soft coal is the best, and any one
who wastes it wastes wealth; for we
need every ounce in the gardens and
fields of the country. This is no whim
or theory; its uses are well known to
every practical gardener. Our cabbage
fields and gardens are all visited with
the common whitish-yellow butterflies
each year, yet this 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 ofany of the cabbage family,
from cauliflowers to Brussel sprouts.
SCOT solved the problem. The opera
tions were to first scatter thin coat of
SCOT on the soil, where the seed had to
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 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 rs de-
scribed the disease is seldom or never
seen. After cabbage plants of any kind
are raised and ready to plant out for
heading, if their roots and stems, right
up to the leaves, are dipped in paint
made of soot 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 new source of employment
for American citizens, and if it were
collected as in England 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-looking roses or bushes that we so
often see now, that look, in fact, as if
they had been burned when the little
caterpillar has feasted on them few
days. The caterpillar that goes by the
name of roller-fy, because it rolls itself
up in the leaves of froses and other things
and eats into the buds of roses. when
feasting is driven away by SCOT sprinkled
over the bushes freely .tbout 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 we'll to repeat the dose
about 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 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 isvery volatile.
SCOT increases the color of the leaves
and flowers of most plants, and gives a
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
rev so fast that the insects could not
catch them, and now he gets a barrel
of SCOT from round house to use on
his garden, every week.
The pretty, yelow-stripped bug that
attacks our squsshes 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 q
paint for all kinds of trees that does not
injure them, but makes them grow as
it washes off, and will keep insects and
rabbits, mice, or other vermin from
them If applied to the stems three or
four times year; 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
fevcrs. hhubarb tea is very refresh.
ing spring beverage. Slice about two
pounds OF rhubarb, and boil for a quar-.
ter oi an hour in quart of water; strain
the liquor into a jug, adding a 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 removed from the fire. In the
| absence OF fresh fruit, apleasant beyer
age may be prepared by stirring spui
] inlo the required quantity of water
, straining the liquor before giving 1t Il
} the patient.