Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 220
llsoon ruin anything which they attack, so promptwork is necessary. Whale-oil soap is preferredby gardeners generally for making the soap-sudswith which to spray them. But it is not necessaryto get this. I usually take any kind of soap Imay happen to find in the laundry, melting aquarter of a cake… … GREENJACKET. 2 730 GARDEN-MAKING AND SOME OF THE GARDENS STORIES [June, is melted. This makes four gallons of soap-sudsaltogether. You can sprinkle it on the plants with a whiskbroom, held in one hand and struck sharplyagainst the other so that a fine shower is sentover the plants. But as the…
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