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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The past few days have made the fruit 
growers uneasy. Yesterday the weather 
man predicted colder, with possibly rain, 
and for today rain positively. Rut the 
temperature increased, and no rain yes¬ 
terday or today, and with a sunrise tem¬ 
perature this second day of February of 
barely under 00. we are hoping for cooler 
weather to keep the trees back. Wo re¬ 
member the splendid bloom a year ago, 
and the frost that destroyed our hopes, 
and fear a repetition. But the cessation 
of snow and rain gives us an opportunity 
to get iuto the garden, and at least clean 
up the trash. The tremendous growth of 
last year's luulzu vine was cut to the 
ground after frost last Fall, so that it can 
start fairly from the ground this season, 
was put on the compost pile. But it 
merely dried up and showed no indication 
of getting in condition to use on the gar¬ 
den. So we burned it, contrary to our 
usual purpose of getting all vegetable de¬ 
cay back to the land. 
The stable manure, which I usually 
spread in the Fall, has remained in piles, 
and, strange to say, has not burnt, but is 
in fine condition to spread. - The spread 
ing began yesterday, but a man iu his 
eighty-third year gets tired very quickly, 
and the spreading will be slow unless help 
appeal's. My old man of all work has 
been laid up for some lime with an in¬ 
flamed leg from a slight hurt in the Fall, 
and the colored gentlemen have not low¬ 
ered their demands in wages. Hence wo 
are taking things rather easily nud more 
slowly than usual. Probably this will 
prevent our being caught. Last year our 
early Irish potatoes were cut to the 
ground. 
At this date every year I get package 
after package of ehiekweed and am asked 
to identify it and tell how to get rid of it. 
Now. ehiekweed is the one weed in my 
garden I do not mind. It makes such a 
dense Winter mulch, protecting such 
things as we leave iu the ground in the 
Fall, especially the Winter radishes and 
carrots. Then when it is turned under 
in the Spring it certainly furnishes some 
vegetable matter to the soil, and it is no 
bother in hot weather. Blooming and 
seeding in Winter and early Spring, it is 
a difficult or impossible job to break it 
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Spring dressing for the lawn. It brings 
iu no weed seed. 
The seedsmen are offering very few 
novelties this Spring. In fact, they offer 
too many varieties of a great many plants, 
ami an elimination of many would be of 
benefit to secdsmeu and gardeners. Iu 
flowers there is a tendency, and not a had 
one, to direct attention to many of the 
old favorite annuals which have lost their 
vogue through the bringing in of novel¬ 
ties. About 1870 to 1SS0 the Verbena 
was a very popular bedding plant, and 
the leading florists grew them in immense 
quantities. John Garvin, a florist in 
Baltimore, grew seedling Verbena of un¬ 
usual vigor of growth and large blooms, 
and for a time it had a rage about Balti¬ 
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seemed to have started from a sport, but 
now few florists pay much attention to 
Verbenas, and they are mainly grown 
from seed. But whether seedlings or 
named varieties are used, the Verbena de¬ 
serves to regain its old bedding popular¬ 
ity. Iu Central and Eastern North Caro¬ 
lina it generally lives over Winter, and at 
the pilot town of Southport, at the mouth 
of the Cape Fear River, I have seen Ver¬ 
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Then there are old annuals that should be 
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Tapping Holes in Iron Pipe 
On page 179 I notice G. II. F. is hav¬ 
ing trouble tapping holes in iron pipe. If 
he can secure a carpenter’s brace with a 
chuck large enough to hold the shank of 
the tap, mid use this in place of a tap 
wrench, li is trouble would be eliminated, 
lie would fiud %-iu. pipe more satisfac¬ 
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