^ treated with imported Scotch soot, ^ 

 well worked into the soil. Scotch soot in 

 connection with flour of bone is an excellent 

 fertilizer. 



I want to caution you now not to accept any 

 Scotch soot in anything but the original bag. 



THE USE OF LIME 



After a "Garden Talk" given down South 

 last Winter, I heard someone remark, "Mrs. 

 Harde is simply mad on the subject of lime." I 

 admit it, and hope to influence you also to that 

 special form of madness. Why? In the first place, 

 lime does everything that everything else does not 

 do. Do you understand what I mean? If in pre- 

 paring the beds of a rose garden we find the soil 

 too light, we lime it; if the soil is too heavy, we 

 lime it ; if the soil is sweet and good, we lime it. 

 That is astonishing, is it not? Yes, astonishing, 

 but true. 



I always lime the bottom of rose beds regard- 

 less of the character of the soil there. 



Air-slacked lime will bind and hold soil that 

 is too light; lime will lighten sticky, heavy, lumpy 

 clay and make it porous, and bring about the dis- 

 integration of those yellow clods; lime will sweeten 



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