HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1912 
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To the other plants I give a top dress¬ 
ing of loam mixed with bone meal. I do 
this by digging away the top earth down 
as far as the roots and putting the new 
loam in its place. In doing this work I am 
careful not to injure the roots of the plant. 
The treatments described, while seeming¬ 
ly simple, are of absolute necessity to 
plants that have been kept in the house for 
a long time, and are the secret of success. 
This spring work goes still further. I 
go over every plant, covering leaves, stems 
and deep into the crown of the plant with 
a stiff brush saturated with a strong suds 
of whale-oil soap. Whale-oil soap is the 
best that can be used, but as the odor is 
offensive, other soap may be substituted, 
but for the best results the whale-oil should 
be used. After using this soap the plants 
should be syringed with clean water, as 
the soap is apt to be caustic if allowed to 
remain too long. One application of this 
soap will keep the plants free from pests 
for a long period. Next, scrub the outside 
of every pot with sand and soap. I use a 
common strong soap and coarse mason’s 
sand and as stiff a brush as I can find. 
.After the scrubbing I wash the pots in 
clean water. This washing not only makes 
the pots more pleasing to the eye, but the 
cleanliness has a direct and beneficial effect 
on the plants themselves. Filthy pots and 
impoverished soil and sooty stems and 
branches are the things that work havoc 
with plants that are kept in the house. 
Just to test this out to see how true it is, 
run your fingers along the branch of a 
palm and then look at them. Examine a 
palm, going deep into the crown where all 
the branches shoot from and see what you 
find. Yon will have begrimed fingers, 
and yon will also find in the crown of the 
plant a soggy, uncleanly and perhaps an 
insect-infested condition. 
These conditions are always the worst in 
the spring, and it is this suggested spring 
work that will overcome these conditions 
before they begin to make inroads on the 
health of the plant, as they most surely 
will if not looked after. 
No matter how well your plants are 
looking just try the experiment of treating 
them as suggested above, and you will be 
pleased with later results. 
Ripen Persimmons at Home 
“'^rOT good until after frost’’ is the 
i- N first thing everybody says to you 
when you mention persimmons. Through 
greediness I learned better. 
Last season, to get ahead of the “little 
niggers,” I brought home a basketful 
which looked ripe, but were decidedly not. 
Instead of throwing them away I deter¬ 
mined to spread them out on a shelf in the 
pantry and see if they would not ripen. 
Six weeks later they were simply de¬ 
licious, not soft, but sugary. And they 
had never known either frost or chill. 
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