538 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 13. 1902. 



VALUE OF ROTTED TAN-BARK. 



Please tell me through the Review 

 what value (if any) there is in old tan- 

 bark that has been rotting in a pile for 

 20 Tears or more. How will it compare 

 with leaf nioultl from oak trees? It is 

 twice the weight and seems to me more 

 beneficial as a inulch for vegetables in 

 the open ground. Would it do for ferns 

 or Asparagus plumosus? 



Ignoramus. 



In answer to Ignoramus would say 

 that I was brought up in a garden 

 where many loads of fresh tan-bark 

 were used every year, but only as a ma- 

 terial to plunge pineapples in pots. 

 Never saw the old material after being 

 quite rotten used in any way except 

 as a mulch. For that, it is undoubtedly 

 of use. I remember it was used for 

 mulching strawberries and for plunging 

 plants in pots out of doors. If this old 

 rotten bark possessed anyof the qualities 

 of leaf mould I have every confidence 

 that those big headed men of fifty 

 years ago would have found a use for it. 

 And. although no chemist, I can say 

 without any fear of contradiction that it 

 possesses none of the fertilizing or nu- 

 tritious qualities of leaf mould. The 

 idea that tan-bjirk when thorouglilv de- 

 composed should be of the same use as 

 genuine leaf mould is by no means a 

 new dream or original. The writer asked 

 himself the question years ago and 

 doubtless hundreds have done the same. 

 I quote in conclusion an extract from 

 the Dictionary of Gardening; there is 

 certainly no better authority: 



Tan or Tanners' Waste. 



Analysis shnw-s th.^t the nitrogenous mat- 

 ter of the fresh bark is almost entirely re- 

 moved from It fn the process of extracting the 

 tannin, while some of the tannin remains and 

 hinders decay of the rcfu.sc. Nearly half of 

 the weight of the tan is water and the ash or 

 mineral compounds In the tan consist verj- 

 largely of carbonate of lime and of silica, the 

 valuable phosphates and potash salts being 

 present in it in only very small quantities. If 

 employed as manure, tan should be made up 

 into a comnost with earth. lime and farm- 

 yard manure and the whole should be sat- 

 urated occasionally with liquid manure and 

 allowed to ferment for a considerable time 

 before using. 



.\11 of which to me shows the wonder- 

 ful value of tan refuse al)out as much 

 as the quality of that muddy, voracious 

 fish called carp, which an "old English 

 aristocrat sized up so accurately when 

 he said that the best way to cook carp 

 was to boil it in port-wine and then 

 throw it away. W. S. 



"The Cow Pea" is the title of the 

 latest publication issued by the Experi- 

 ment Farm of Xorth Carolina State Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Southern Pines, 

 N. C. This book, neatly bound and illus- 

 trated in plain and concise manner, dis- 

 cusses the value and uses of this im- 

 portant crop, the cow pea. Every read- 

 er can get a copy free by writing to the 

 Superintendent of Experiment Farm, 

 Sotuhern Pines, N. C. 



Osage, Iowa.— The firm of Hall Bros, 

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Paixesville, O. — ^Mr. B. H. Payne 

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