The RURAL NEW 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The peonies are blooming this middle /) \£ff A 
of May, and there is no gayer flower. It 
is true that here in our sandy soil we do J*. 
not get the gorgeous profusion of flowers 
I have seen on different soil northward, j 
but we get enough to add beauty to tbe *vgJjj 
garden and the house. In fact, we are jpQf! 
compelled to cut them pretty fast to pre- i’ 
vent, the rose bugs from devouring them. VM 
The rose chafers are the worst pest we y . ir 
have. In spite of all the spraying we can 
do, they get the lion’s share of our grapes. 
They eat the young unopened bloom clean. 
The weediest place in the garden now 
is the asparagus bed. The chick weed has 
covered it, and we cannot hoe it. as the 
rows lcept cut cannot he seen anrl the s' 
shoots may be hoed off. When cutting 
stops with June, aud the tops run up tall, 
we will hoe the weeds off and dig arid 
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the size of the shoot next Spring. Too 
many abandon the a spurn pis bed after 
stopping cutting, and it grows up a mass 
of tops and weeds, a breeding place for 
cutworms. Tender stuff grows slowly, for 
the nights have continued too cool for 
rapid growth, and the lack of rain is 
seriously felt. Tbe final result of the 
April frost can now be seen. Here the 
largest grower of peaches claims that his 
crop will hardly be 10 per cent, tvhile 
east of us. near the ocean, the largest 
fruit grower in this section, or probably 
plsewhere, who has 1,000 acres of orchard, 
says that he will have 00 per cent of a 
peach crop. 100 per cent Summer apples, 
and much smaller in Winter apples. 
I have been, as usual, interested in 
watching three maple trees by my house. 
The Norway maples were all in full leaf in 
April. These three are sugar maples, and 
each of them has its own day to start in 
Spring, as I have noted for years. One 
of these trees is on my lawn, and when 
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promptly on May o, ntwer later noy 
earlier. Both of these trees rush rapidly 
into full leaf. No. 3 opens its leaves 
promptly ou the tenth of May, and never 
earlier, no matter what the weather. This 
tree is very deliberate about leafing. To- 
(May IT) the leaves are hardly half 
funding close 
lifeless after all, 
are in full leaf.! 
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grown. These three trees, 
together and looking 
around them the trees 
always attract attention, and passers' 
regret that there are three dead trees. 
But in tbe Fall the tree that does not 
start till May 10 is the most glorious 
thing in the neighborhood. It turns or 
ange tinted with scarlet all over, while 
the other trees of the same species color, 
but not near so bright. 
Bight across the road is the two-acre 
lot where last year, as I then told, a 
young farmer grew nearly $900 worth 
of cucumbers. He is now hauling in a 
crop of hay made from sowing Crimson 
clover and wheat last Fall. He would 
have made better hay. I think, by sowing 
Winter oats instead of wheat, for Fall 
sown oats do very well here in the aver¬ 
age Winter. But now he will plow the 
stubble for corn. I told him that he 
could have made a heavier crop by turn¬ 
ing the whole for corn. lie said that 
doubtless be could have done so, but he 
needed the feed, and the manure will 
make good the loss. The lot was well 
manured last Spring for cucumbers. This 
land had been lyiug for years in a dense 
sod of Blue grass that was neither cut 
nor pastured. Then with the furor for 
vacant-lot culture during the war, the 
sod was broken and planted to corn, and 
made such a heavy crop that the greedy 
growers planted it in corn three years in 
succession, and last year was the first 
time it had any manure. I asked the 
man now working it if lie would use any 
commercial fertilizer on the corn, and he 
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