The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-06
SCOT In Horticulture.

SCOT is a despised thing at which every
one lifts up his or her hands in holy horror.
Yet il is one of our most valuable fertilizers,
and for boosting insects it stands very high
The SCOT from soft coal is the best and any
one who wastes il wastes wealth for we need
eyery ounce in the gardens and fields of the
country This is no within or theory; Its
uses are well-known to every practical
gardener Our cabbage-fields and gardens
are all visited with the common whitlsh-
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 dewy mornings, or when they
are wet The writer had once charge OF
garden where it had been unfortunate in the
PRODUCTION of any of tine cabbage family,
from caulihOwers to Brussel sprouts SCOT
solved the problem. The operations were
to first scatter a 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 q rake or fork. for il is fatal to seed II
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 mischief. Our professors have
| been irving to make "club-root" in the cab
bage tribe q disease, but il SCOT is used as 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 a paint made OF SCOT. soil and
water. Just thick enough to stick to them
few ground insects will attack them. A good
many can be dipped at one time. Land
where carrots, turnips, or onions have to be
sown is always benefited if a good dressing
of SCOT is applied The turnip crop is al
important one in England, and were it not
for free use of SCOT it could not be grown
nor could wheat; and it is common thinl
to see train of SCOT leaving the large town.
for the market gardening and farming dis
tricts. Here is new source OF employment
| for American citizens, and il il were col
iected, 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 Of
bushes that we so often see now, that look
| in fact, as il they had been burned when thu
little catterpiller has feasted on them few
days The catterpiller that goes by the nam,
of roller-fly, because il rolls itself up in tn,
leaves of roses and other things and eats into
the buds of roses, when feasting is driven
away by SCOT sprinkled over the bushes free
| " about the latter end Of April or beginning
of May, as it is about that time that the egg:
begin to hatch that have been laid on the
bushes and it is well to repeat the dose
| about week before the roses are likely t(
open. The SCOT will generally be pretty vel
| Off before the roses are fit to gather and ladie
will not be annoyed by finding big, ugly
grub inside thesr 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 anC
flowers of most plants, and give a vigorous
growth.
A gentleman at Indianapolis, who wa
advised to use SCOT to drive insects from hi
plants, reports that his wife thought that hi
had killed her pets, and after few days he
thought the plants grew so fast that the in
sects could not catch them, and now he get!
q barrel of SCOT from round-house, to use
on his garden. every week.
The pretty, yellow-striped bug that at
tacks our squashes and cucumbers has ne
affinity for SCOT or ashes, and soon leaves fOl
ether places. where it don't get such season
ing at it's meals.
Apply SCOT whenever the leaves of plant
are moist, and four or FIVE dressings in a yea
are not too much. SCOT and flour of sulphu
in equal parts mixed in thin flour past,
make paint for all kinds OF trees that doe
not injure them, but makes them grow as /
washes off, and will keep insects and rab
bits, mice, or other vermin from them il ap
and mildew will seldom be seen when thi
mixture is frequently used on vines or Othe
things subject to it. A GARDNER