Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The editor is right in regard to Crim¬ 
son clover. Years ago, when traveling 
and lecturing in the Pennsylvania Farm¬ 
ers’ Institutes, I found that in the lower 
section of York Couuty, next to Mary¬ 
land. nearly every cornfield was green 
■with this clover, but not. many miles 
northward there seemed to he a distinct 
liue where Crimson clover stopped. The 
country became more elevated, and of 
course colder. 1 have had a very long 
experience with this clover. More than 
50 years ago some one sent me a small 
paper of seed labeled "Italia clover, very 
pretty.” I made a dower bed of it in 
Southern Delaware, and it was pretty. 
It looked too much like the clover I had 
been accustomed to all my life, except in 
the color of its flowers, to he limited to 
the flower bed. So I talked Crimson 
clover, and the Delaware, farmers took it 
up and sowed it all over the State. In 
my experience its chief value is as a green 
manure crop. It is far more difficult to 
make good hay of it than it is to make 
good clover hay from Red clover. This 
is largely due to its very sappy nature 
when it should be cut. and to the fact 
that we seldom have good hay-making 
weather when it has to be saved. I see 
attempts to make clover of it all around 
me every Spring, and have never seen 
any really good hay made, certainly not 
any that T would venture to feed to a 
horse. I long ago came to the conclusion 
that it is the most valuable crop we have 
here as a Winter cover and a manure 
for corn. 
On our sandy soil here corn in some 
seasons fires badly in the leaves below 
the ears. With Crimson clover turned 
under, or even the stubble and roots, corn 
never fires. I have before mentioned the 
two-acre lot of sandy soil right across 
the road from where I write this where 
a young man made a fine crop of cucum¬ 
bers last year, and turned under the 
vines and sowed wheat and Crimson 
clover, from which he cut a fine crop of 
hay this Spring. lie turned the stubble 
under and planted corn without any fer¬ 
tilization. That corn is now a sight for 
tired eyes. I stood in it when it was higher 
than my head and had not tasseled, and 
I am over t! ft. tall. That la’nd had been 
three years in corn before the cucumbers 
were planted. The first of those three 
crops was made after turning a 20-year 
sod of Blue grass, and it was so good 
that he kept planting it in corn. The 
present cultivator says the soil is still 
full of Blue grass seed, for the sod stood 
for 20 years or more seeding, and falling 
down uncut and unpastured, and T have 
no doubt that if let stand one year it 
would run back to Blue grass. The 
present crop is as heavy a promise as 
the first one after the god was turned. 
This is mainly due to the clover stubble. 
The manure last year was only in the 
hills for the cukes. With a green cover 
crop this Winter the grower expects to 
go hack to cucumbers next Spring. 
I have an early-flowering white Chry¬ 
santhemum which always makes some 
flowers in August, and is now doing so. 
It is not of the pompons, hut the large- 
flowered species. But this Summer flow¬ 
ering never seems to interfere with i's 
making a full Autumn bloom. Usually 
the stray Summer blooms on the 'mums 
are poor little things, hut I suppose that 
it is due to the nightly showers and more 
vigorous growth that the flowers arc 
really good, for plant is not treated any 
way to improve the size of the bloom. 
The past Spring T went hack to some 
old-fashioned flowers, such as hardy pinks 
and Seahiosa. Both of these are still in 
bloom, and the Scahiosa. wi*Ti flowers 
like the double English daisies, is fine for 
cutting, because of its long straight 
stems, and the flowers make an array of 
colors from a packet of mixed seed. 
The asters have made a wonderful 
growth. In the moist tropical weather 
some are nearly waist high, and are now 
lust beginning to open the heads of 
bloom. 
With peaches at 50 cents for a three- 
neck basket we will probably have more 
home-canned peaches than for years, not¬ 
withstanding the April frost killed them. 
Fine selected fruit sells for eating out 
of hand for more money. Apples, too. 
are plentiful on the market and. like last 
Fall, we will have lots of apple “sass" 
in jars for the Winter, when the North¬ 
ern apples are always high It makes 
little difference with our retail dealers in 
fruit what the npnle crop may be. The 
price is always high, no matter what the 
Northern grower gets for his fruit. 
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