Notes from a Maryland Garden 
•The marketing of the cantaloupe crop 
is in full swing, ami the price has already 
dropped. One day recently the crates of 
45 melons sold for 00c, or less than 1 YjC 
each, and a hotel guest in New York will 
pay 25c for half of one. The cn.^t of the 
crate, of course, comes out of the price. 
The market will probably recover some¬ 
what, but there will hardly he any for¬ 
tunes made in the nuisknmlons this sea¬ 
son. The buying capacity of the average 
city family is not just now as great as 
usual, and the farmers may not even get 
the 35-cent dollar. 
By the time the arsenate finished the 
Colorado beetles ou the eggplants, the 
striped Diabrotiea. the cucumber beetle, 
attacked them, and more poison had to be 
used. The ordinary dusting bellows i-* 
almost useless in this humid weather, as 
the powder gathers moisture and chokes 
the bellows. If we are to use dusting 
arsenates the baud bellows must be aban¬ 
doned and a non-chokable machine used. 
Fighting insects and fungi is now one 
of the most costly matters in the carrying 
on of a garden, and it seems that since 
the spraying and dusting have come into 
use there are more insects than ever. 
The South gets its worst enemies of this 
sort from Mexico. The boll weevil came 
from over the Bin Grande, and the terra¬ 
pin bug, Murgantia histrionica, which is 
so destructive to cabbages and collards 
in the .South, is also a Mexican invader. 
Both these are sucking insects. The ter¬ 
rapin bugs, so-called from their coloration 
like a pond terrapin, range themselves 
closely all along the edge of the cabbage 
leaf and proceed to suck it to death. 
Many can he destroyed by sowing mus¬ 
tard seed near by the cabbages. They 
are very fond of this and can be gathered 
on the mustard and sprayed with kero¬ 
sene. killing insects and plants at the 
same time. A contact remedy strong 
enough to kill the bugs will be apt to 
damage or kill the plants. Dusting with 
calcium arsenate damages the boll weevil 
and will have some effect on the terrapin 
bugs, since, like the boll weevil, it will 
drink poisoned dewdrops. This Murgau- 
tia has reached us here, and not only at¬ 
tacks cabbages, but will clean up rows of 
beets in short order. I tried a strong 
contact preparation and destroyed the 
beets faster than the bugs. This beetle, is 
of good size and black in color, variegat¬ 
ed with red. It may progress farther 
North. On the cabbages in garden cul¬ 
ture one can fight them by shaking them 
off into a pan of water covered with kero¬ 
sene. These suckers are a difficult pest to 
manage. The eating beetles, etc., are 
more easily destroyed. 
Just outside my office door is a very 
luxuriant vine of the Memory grape, 
which belongs to the Yulpiua genus, like 
the scuppernong. In this hot aud humid 
weather it has thrown down from over¬ 
head a shower of aerial roots about 2 ft. 
long. In the humid coast country of the 
South Atlantic the scuppernong very com¬ 
monly throws down these aerial roots 
around the stem, and they root and make 
gigantic fasciated stems to the vines. But 
this is the first time I have seen these 
roots formed high up ou the vine. 
The rooting crab grass is more abun¬ 
dant this moist season than usual. It 
spreads with great rapidity by the root¬ 
ing of its prostrate stems at every node, 
and many Southern farmers send me 
specimens asking whether it is Johnson 
grass, which they dread above all plants. 
They are familiar with the ordinary 
bunch crab grass. Fleusiue indica, but do 
not seem to know that this spreading 
crab grass bears the same name, though 
carrying a different botanical one, Pani- 
runi sanguinale. Why “sanguinale” I 
cannot guess, os there is nothing bloody 
about it. 
But how the Gannas flourish in this hot 
moisture. The King Humberts are a solid 
mass of great scarlet heads, and the 
mixed bed of white, yellow, orange aud 
pink heads is more showy than ever. I 
have not found a better white Canna 
than Eureka nor a pink one than Mrs. 
Wilson. The Fiery Cross, introduced a 
few years ago as the largest heads of 
scarlet, is surpassed by several, and espe¬ 
cially by the Remarkable and Wintzer’s 
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