‘She RURAL NEW 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
My plums escaped the freeze, but for 
two days past we have had a little hurri¬ 
cane, and the greater part of the plums 
are on the ground. Not only plums, but 
the leaves, and the leaves of the shade 
trees litter the sidewalks. The few 
peaches on the trees held on better than 
the plums. The growing of fruit is a 
very uncertain matter. !'he green plums 
look as though they would make very 
good olives. Some Gladiolus corms 
missed in the lifting last Fall are np and 
growing stronger than the ones that were 
lifted and stored, and stray f’amias from 
pieces broken off in lifting are growing. 
The past Winter gave us more snow than 
we have had in several Winters usually, 
and that had some influence in protecting 
things in the ground, for the weather was 
not so mild as in the previous Winter. 
The tomatoes have their stakes, and we 
are now setting stakes to the Dahlias. 
Every Summer I find the best ties for 
attaching these plants to the stakes are 
the used-up typewriter ribbons, and I 
usually have enough of these to use on all 
the garden plants needing tying up. They 
are far better than twine, being flat and 
soft, and not apt to cut the green stems. 
The worn ribbons are saved every time a 
new one is inserted, and I get the two 
uses and stive buying twine. 
The green pea aphis has struck here 
this Spring, and some growers have 
turned the crop under. In my garden 
there were hardly any to be found. Years 
ago when they arrived in North Carolina 
I was summoned to New Bern to tell 
what to do to destroy the lice on the 
pens. On firm of large pea growers had 
T2."> acres in green peas, and every plant 
bad millions. When asked what to do. T 
told them there was nothing that could 
theu save the crop, and they would bet¬ 
ter be plowed under and some late crop 
sown. Then the next season, if they 
would make their fertilizer about half 
tobacco dust, or would use tobacco stems 
liberally in the furrows, they would have 
no lice. There has been no more trouble 
in that district. Of course, spraying 
with sulphate of nicotine as soon as any 
appear will destroy them, but the flavor, 
if not the poisonous effects of the nico¬ 
tine. will peuotrate the green hulls. Pre¬ 
vention is always better than cure. 
Hence it is better to get the tobacco 
stems or dust, and have them at hand to 
use in case of a swarm of aphids. 
The Colorado beetles have been scarce. 
I watched the potatoes carefully, and 
found very few crawling about. And yet 
suddenly plants here and there swarmed 
with the larva?. A dusting of calcium ar¬ 
senate wiped them out at once. A little 
hand bellows distributes the powder very 
evenly, and it is more quickly death to 
the beetles and larvie than any arsenate 
I have tried. I use it on the plums for 
eurculio. In spite of what looked like 
almost a total loss when the wind 
thrashed the green plums to the ground, 
I find that now that the fruit is enlarg¬ 
ing and there are plums enough to bend 
the limbs down. The four trees that Dr. 
Van Fleet sent me from California have 
about as many as they should have, and 
the wind simply thiued them, as I would 
not. The Japanese varieties are over¬ 
loaded still. These will be all the better 
for spraying with the self-boiled lime 
sulphur to prevent rotting. Peach trees 
on which the fruit is apt to rot can be 
sprayed with this, while the concentrated 
lime-sulphur would be liable to defoliate 
the tree. 
I have received from a correspondent 
in Massachusetts a quantity of onion sets 
which he says are Japanese, and a fine, 
strong grower, and that a firm there is 
growing them for sale on a large scale. 
Though two months later than we usual¬ 
ly plant onion sets here. I have planted 
them, and will be much interested in 
watching them, and if they do well will 
be glad to say so. I fear that the late 
planting will put the crop short, as 
onions seldom grow well in hot weather. 
The farmers are reaping a harvest 
from the strawberry crop, as the prices 
have kept at a fair level. The greatest 
difficulty has been to get enough bauds to 
pick them. The negro washwomen all weut 
to the strawberry fields, and everyone has 
had either to do their washing at home or 
send it to the laundry, w. f. massey. 
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