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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
With steamy, hot days and almost daily 
showers, the garden is in rampant growth, 
especially the weeds. There is one dam¬ 
age the weeds do which is not realized 
till the following Spring. This is the cut¬ 
worm. Many people go into the garden 
in the Spring with great enthusiasm, and 
get a lot of early stuff plantjed. But by 
July their enthusiasm gets roasted out, 
and in late Summer and Fall the garden 
grows up in weeds, and in the weeds the 
cutworms breed. There has been a great 
deal of complaint the past cold May or 
the damage done hv cutworms, and in the 
cases that came under my eyes it was 
largely the result of last Fall’s neglect. 
My garden was kept absolutely clean, and 
weeds on the lots adjoining my wire 
fence were cleaned out for two feet be¬ 
yond my fence. This Spring I lost one 
plant, and one plant only, from cut¬ 
worms. 
Riding around the country one sees 
that there is a great area planted in the 
three most reliable truck crops—canta¬ 
loupes. cucumbers and sweet potatoes. 
There is no sitting down in a cantaloupe 
packing shed here, as seems to be the 
case in Jersey, according to the picture 
on page 765. It is a rush of packing and 
nailing. Cantaloupes are packed in crates 
holding 45 average-sized melons. Jum¬ 
bos or exrta sized ones are packed to¬ 
gether as a separate class. Davis Per 
feet cucumbers seem to be leading this 
Summer, as they brought the top of the 
market last year. The cantaloupes grown 
here have made a reputation for quality, 
and our growers do not fear the competi¬ 
tion of California or of Colorado in the 
Eastern markets. The comparatively 
new variety known as Pearl Pink Meat, 
while later than Eden Gem and Pollock, 
has brought the best prices, and some 
growers are planting them exclusively. 
The white netting completely covers these 
melons. The pink flesh is really orange. 
I prefer the Eden Gem or the salmon- 
tinted Pollock, but these white-netted 
melons attract the eye of the city buyer, 
and the city buyer always buys by eye 
rather than quality. 
While we do not grow Greening apples 
down here, I am always glad to get hold 
of some in Winter. No baked apple can 
quite equal a baked Greening. For eat¬ 
ing out of hand the St ay man as grown 
here is far away the best apple we get. 
The Stayrram acquires a special quality 
on Ibis peninsula, and is a very different 
apple from the Stayman grown in the Ap¬ 
palachian orchards or in the North, just 
as the Albemarle Pippin, when taken out 
of its native mountain coves, becomes a 
different apple. 
I said recently in The R. N.-Y. that 
the potato beetles seemed to be scarce. 
They were only biding their time, for I 
have never had to fight them so. But I 
have won out, and we now have new po¬ 
tatoes to eat. The string beans appeared 
on the table on June S from plants which 
I covered with soil when the freeze of 
April 23 came. With Wakefield cabbage, 
beets and string beans on the table it 
seems once more like Summer. The to¬ 
matoes are later than usual. May seems 
(o have hold them back, and the green to¬ 
matoes do not promise to ripen till late 
in the month. 
I am now (June 9) about to sow more 
tomato seed to make the plants that will 
give a crop of well-growu green fruit for 
packing away to ripen like the Florida 
ones do. On the market the tomatoes are 
now coming from Mississippi. The flat, 
tray-like boxes seem to be peculiar to the 
Mississippi grower, and tlu-ir tomatoes 
are allowed to get nearer to ripening than 
the Floridas. and are larger and better 
than the Florida fruit. 
Noting what the editor says about. Al- 
sike clover, I would add that it is far 
more lasting or semi-perennial than Red 
clover, and on low land liable to be flooded 
it will stand being under water for a day 
or so, and come out all right when the 
mud dries off. At this time of the year 
down here it smells sweet enough to merit 
a place in the pasture. 
The rainy spell has lasted over a week, 
and now we are expecting soon to have to 
turn the water into the Skinner pipes. 
Such is our climate; an alternation of too 
wet and too dry. w. f. massey. 
The Old Carriage Maker 
Had an Important Truth 
Tc 
O make each part as strong as the rest,” was his 
way of “building a wonderful, one-horse chaise that 
wouldn’t wear out till judgment day.” 
This illustrates a fact that is keeping many doctors 
busy these days—human bodies, like chaises, break 
down because some part isn’t as strong as the others. 
Very often it’s because of ill-balanced food, lack¬ 
ing in some important element of nutrition. This is 
especially true of ills developed in childhood, and 
carried on through life. 
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as the rest — to serve human need. Grape-Nuts 
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grains, wheat and barley, including the vital min¬ 
eral elements, and it is a wonderful food for build¬ 
ing and sustaining health and strength. 
The delicious flavor and crispness of Grape-Nuts 
make it a welcome dish whenever you’re hungry. 
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