Garden and Farm Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Experience keeps a high-priced school, 
hut some men will not learn in any other. 
Recently a man in Southeastern North 
Carolina wrote to me that lie has already 
a large lot of transplanted celery plants, 
and wanted me to tell him all about set¬ 
ting and cultivating the* crop. I wrote 
him that the main difficulty was that his 
plants arc too early, as August is early 
enough to set out. celery in his climate, 
lie wrote back that the directions I gave 
him would not do, for he is going to put 
the celery on the market in August, He 
says he will set it in June and blanch it 
with planks, as they do in Florida, and 
will pack in paper so it will blanch in 
transit. Since he knows so much it is 
odd that he asked my advice. It is use¬ 
less to try to help men of this sort. He 
will get the experience and will know 
that August celery cannot he produced in 
North Carolina. A man near Portsmouth, 
Ya., owns 4,000 acres of very rich land 
which his father reclaimed from the Dis¬ 
mal Swamp, and which ho lias further 
improved by dredging and drainage canal 
to the Elizabeth River. Several years 
ago he employed a man from Kalamazoo, 
Mich., who was an experienced celery | 
grower, to grow celery oil this fertile 
1*1 aek soil. The man started in just as 
he would in Kalamazoo, and had 10 acres 
set by the last of May. I saw it in lute 
July, after the man had quit in disgust, 
and told the owner that celery would not 
grow in Virginia. The difficulty was that 
the man thought. Virginia climale was 
like that of Michigan. And so my North 
Carolina friend imagines lie can do in prized a 
Summer in North Carolina what they do French o 
in Winter in Florida. If he grows celery in &^- . 
next year he will not try to make it in on It tire 
August. sunny sit 
Today I received a package of beaus comfits, i 
which were forwarded to me from Tiik R. aiii 
N.-Y. office tit the request of Mr. Barbcok Sweet 1 
of North Carolina. The beans are one of but in con 
the genus Canavallia. One of these, Can- j’. rnin S00( i 
avallia ensiformis, was pushed a few years i;7uV n'lf'! 
ago as Chicasaw Lima bean. This one planted, o 
luts been often grown as a curiosity, be- if should 
cause of its great pods, over a foot long ^ ^ 
and 2 in. wide. Mr. Barbeck’s beans are sauces. 1 
probably Canavallia obtusa. These arc In Fnglai 
native to South Florida. Lately the butter sat 
Southern fakers, having been warned iff ,. 0 ;i,IMv"*f,* 
the Lima bean fraud, have been pushing a warm, 1 
the Canavallia ensiformis as the “Great Jial shade, 
American Coffee Bean,” and telling won- 11 I? ' ‘ 1 
derful lies about its great productiveness, llsua l]y 
and that they will buy all produced at $6 is often 
a bushel. I have never hoard of their 1S i ,rs t 
buying a bushel, though they fooled many !/,,t”;/lo 
Southern farmers into planting them and when tl 
paying a fancy price for the seed. One leaves ai 
of the Canavallias is known to be rank or dried, 
. , . . JSu mm 
poison, ana none of them is of any et*o- mav j )0 
nomie value compared with species we open gai 
have already. Mr. Barbeck’s beans have J* US(,< 1 
been dumped into my waste basket. They Thvnn 
have much shorter pods that Ensiformis, rather <] 
and Ensiformis has a dark eye, while posure. 
these are entirely white. I have had the 
( anavullias sent to me every Spring tor soup, dr 
years from all over the South, owing to 
the activity of the fakers. I fear that in "Ad 
spite of all I have written, many farmers Wo h 
in the South have lost money with these cently 
beans. 
The plum trees are hanging down with 
the weight of the fruit, but the peach 
trees have little weight to carry, so far 
as mine are concerned, though I have 
seen trees along the road that evidently 
have all I hey should carry. I have picked 
ripe tomatoes here 10 days later than 
this. This season the early tomatoes are 
no larger than a marble the boys are a*k« 
shooting. It will be well in July before 
we gel them ripe, from present prospect-?. R<>a< 
The strawberry crop is about past, a ml migh 
lias been a very line and profitable one on p!| |1 j l 
the whole, though some fields suffered by 
frost. This crop is especially useful as vest 
bringing in cash in the Spring, and enab- us * 
ling growers to push work on later things, '/pp’l 
W. V. MASSEY, R. > 
particular kind for some time, but. have 
been unable to find it. 2. This Spring I 
had n number of herb seeds sent me, 
anise, balm, sweet basil, coriander, sweet 
fennel, hyssop, sweet marjoram. Summer 
savory and English thyme. I have sown 
them all in open ground, but do not know 
if they are annuals or perenuhils, or if 
they need to be transplanted. Neither do 
1 know just how to use them and prepare 
them for use. Can you help me out ? 
Portland, N. Y. mrs. l. d. p. 
The “old-fashioned, thorny yellow rose” 
is either Persian Yellow or Harrison’s 
Yellow, both varieties of the briar rose. 
Harrison’s Yellow is considered a little 
more free in bloom than Persian Yellow. 
Most dealers in roses can supply these 
varieties. They are catalogued by many 
nurserymen, 
2. Anise is an annual. It does not 
transplant readily, so it should be sown 
in drills about 15 in. apart, and when 
2 in. high the seedlings should be thinned, 
so that they are about G in. asunder. The 
leaves are sometimes used as a garnish or 
flavoring, but the seeds are the main crop. 
They are used in cakes, condiments and 
Confectionery. 
Balm is a perennial, propagated by 
seeds, layers, cuttings and division. It 
does not grow readily from seed Outside, 
us a rule, and is usually sown in pots or 
><>xes- in greenhouse or frame. It requires 
pricking out when the seedlings are about 
tin inch tall, and may be set in the garden 
when about- 4 in. tall. It needs a dry. 
sunny place. The foliage is used for 
soups, salads and other tlavoriugs, 
Basil is at, annual, quite easily raised 
from seed under glass, requiring much the 
same treatment as balm. IV c have ger¬ 
minated both balm and basil in the open 
garden in favorable seasons, but a verv 
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life, with its mixture of bright and dark 
side's, in every town or grange library. 
"Hope Farm Notes” is a well-printed 
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stories of farm life and country people. 
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the woman does not have the common 
necessities and comforts which all wotnun 
need. The husband is not a bad charac¬ 
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Name 
Street or It. F. D 
Old-fashioned Rose; Herb Culture 
1. I have just read Mrs. D, B. P.’s 
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