PRESERVATIVES FOR WOOD SUPPORTS
Garden fences will need their annual overhaul, and the stormy days of wintei will find the flower stakes being examined and stored. Wherever wood supports of any kind have to be kept in the soil for a time it will repay the gardener to use some preservative so as to check the process of decay, which speedily ruins the' wood. Some good preservatives are how advertised by various firms, but the gardener who only needs small quantities will find a gallon of tar oil very useful. Paint the wood thinly to at least din above the ground level. Shake a little rough sand over the tar to bind it bettor, then leave the sticks,, aside to dry. Creosote or tar oil may be used. Some gardeners get a quantity of the liquid and allow the props to stand in it lor three or tour days. By springtime the injurious (dements in the tar 01 creosote will have snaked into the wood, and they will do no harm to the plants.
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Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 25
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174PRESERVATIVES FOR WOOD SUPPORTS Evening Star, Issue 21748, 16 June 1934, Page 25
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