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Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Constant rains are making weeds in 
I lie garden, as we cannot find the soil dry 
enough to hoe or use llie cultivator. But 
with this steaming weather how things 
glow! With a little more sunlight the 
early tomatoes would ripen. In fact, if 
we would cut them and wrap in paper, 
as the Southern ones are treated, we 
would soon have the artificially ripe, 
skinny tilings, like the Southern, Itut we 
prefer to let nature take its course and 
give us really ripe ones. 
Our kind friends send me all sorts of 
seed. Tlte newest arrival is a package 
of seed from Mississippi, said to be a 
cross between cabbage and Brussels 
sprouts. The sender writes that they are 
preferred in his neighborhood to any cab¬ 
bage. They make, he says, tender buds, 
rather than cabbage heads. 1 will try 
age, has to pass through the process of 
nitrification by the agency of the soil 
bacteria till it is brought into a nitrate 
form. lienee the organic nitrogen is 
more slowly taken by tly plants than an 
article that is already a nitrate and ready 
to be used at once. The value to the 
farmer of this electrically developed ni¬ 
trate will depend on its commercial value 
as compared with nitrate of soda. So far 
as my experience goes, if offered at same 
price, I would take the nitrate of soda 
until I had had more experience with 
the lime nitrate. But there is too much 
money wasted by our farmers in the pur¬ 
chase of nitrogen. I know successful 
farmers, grain growers and dairymen, 
who have not bought any nitrogen in a 
fertilizer for many years, and are mak¬ 
ing better crops than those who buy 
nitrogen in a fertilizer. But they get it 
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A Young Fisherman with Ills Homemade Outfit 
them, but am inclined to think that a 
good head of Savoy cabbage would be 
better, and real Brussels sprouts, too. in¬ 
stead of a cross. 
►Seed of the Curled Scotch kale was 
planted last week (June 19). We will set 
these like cabbage plants to get large 
heads to get tender in the frost for Fall 
use. Then in the meantime we will sow 
seed of the more hardy curled kale to cut 
in (Winter and Spring. 
Last Fall I wrapped my oleander bush 
thickly with the Canna tops, but did not 
get them thick enough, and the bush was 
very considerably cut. But I cut into 
sound wood, and the plant is now grow¬ 
ing rapidly. 1 have probably lost the 
bloom for this season. On tl.e south side 
of my office, beside the brick wall that 
encloses the cellar and furnishes the 
foundation for the frame, I find a place 
where many half hardy things pass the 
Winter safely. Along this wall Camias 
and Gladioli are growing strongly, the 
Gladioli more vigorously than those taken 
up and replanted in Spring. On this 
from the air through the growing of 
legume crops and burying them in the 
soil, or feeding them and giving the soil 
the manure. Talk about Muscle Shoals 
and nitrate making—every farmer can 
make his own nitrates, and make them 
cheaper than Ford could at Muscle 
Shoals. “Do it yourself.’’ 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Shading Greenhouses 
During the Summer it is often neces¬ 
sary to shade greenhouse roofs for the 
protection of delicate plants. Old-fash¬ 
ioned gardeners used to use whitewash 
tor this purpose, which was quickly 
washed off by the rain. Later formulas 
use green coloring in this shading, and 
the Bulletin of the Missouri Botanic 
Garden, gives tin- following -suggestions: 
*1 r, tji recently the formula used was 
white lead, whiting and shutter green, 
mixed with benzine to form a spray. The 
use of this preparation required over 300 
gallons of benzine annually to cover the 
entire glass area, and the spray was both 
costly and unpleasant to apply. Fre¬ 
quently too much white lead would he 
used or the solution would not be sufli- 
satne border the feverfews always bloom ciently agitated, and permanent splotches 
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Some folks seem to think that I am a 
walking encyclopedia of domestic affairs. 
One woman correspondent sends me 10 
cents in stamps and asks me to send her 
a recipe for making dill pickles. of 
course I know nothing about pickling, 
but I imagine that dill pickles are only 
ordinary pickles flavored with the leaves 
of the dill plant. And a man writes to 
know if I know of any substitute for 
buttermilk in the making of bread. This 
comes from where the people habitually 
eat hot soda biscuits every meal, and 
then buy quack remedies for indigestion. 
They never have real bread lightened by 
yeast. There are many thousands who 
do make good bread and never see butter¬ 
milk. I may get to lie a cook and bread- 
maker if I keep on writing for these peo¬ 
ple. 
Another correspondent asks to be in¬ 
formed as to the value of Norwegian ni¬ 
trate of lime. I do not know its commer¬ 
cial value, as I have never bought it, but 
no plant uses nitrogen until it is in the 
form of a nitrate. Organic nitrogen, as 
in cottonseed meal, fish scrap and tank- 
scrape ott for the \\ inter season. Recent 
experiments have resulted in a much 
cheaper and more satisfactory spray 
which will withstand heavy rainy periods, 
hut nevertheless will wash off' by Fall. 
H ator is used instead of benzine and 
potassium bichromate and powdered glue 
are substituted for white lend. The fol¬ 
lowing is the formula used, the shutter 
green being omitted if a white shade is 
desired : 
Water . 1 gal. 
W biting . 1 ]b. 
Shutter green (dry). 2y> oz, 
Powdered glue.3 oz. 
Bichromate of potassium. 1)4 oz. 
In preparation the powdered glue and 
the potassium bichromate are dissolved 
by boiling in separate containers. The 
whiting is dissolved in cold water. The 
glue and bichromate of potassium should 
not be mixed with the water and whiting 
until just before using, ami after mixing 
the solution should be kept from the sun 
to prevent premature setting or harden¬ 
ing, This solution, after screening, will 
pass readily through a hand spray or 
barrel pump. At the Garden the small 
hand syringe is used in applying the 
spray to the small houses, and if a sharp, 
jerky movement is used an even shade 
will result, hut the ordinary movement 
produces an irregular shade. In spray¬ 
ing the large conservatories the power 
spray supplied with Bordeaux nozzle is 
used to advantage.” 
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