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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The Nanticoke blackberries finished 
their season August 23. Slightly drier 
and cooler weather is briuging better 
flowers on the Dahlias in great profusion, 
and the China asters, grown over waist 
high, are furnishing many bouquets for 
friends and the hospitals. It is a mys¬ 
tery to me how the crab grass survives. 
Wo keep the garden absolutely dean, and 
never allow it to get old enough to seed, 
and yet the soil seems never to lack the 
seed. 
The peaches which were killed last 
April have done wonderfully well, and 
the peach crop on the peninsula will be a 
notable one. It is true that some or¬ 
chards suffered considerably, but one 
grower who thought his crop was nearly 
ruined has been selling quantities on the 
local market and shipped 10 carloads 
North. Other growers nearer the ocean 
have had a normal crop. 
The cucumber and cantaloupe crops 
were less profitable than last year. Next 
year the wise ones will plant liberally 
and reap a profitable crop, while the dis¬ 
couraged growers will lose out again. 
This is the usual ease in the trucking 
business. 
The tomato area planted has been 
smaller than ever, and the rains damaged 
the fruit so that the few canneries that 
worked were hard pressed for tomatoes. 
It seems probable that next season will 
find the farmers and canners back to the 
old area and all of the factories at wont. 
It looks as though the old peach fever 
was returning. The planting of peach 
orchards is greatly on the increase. The 
planting of apple trees is a newer enter¬ 
prise on the peninsula. Very large or¬ 
chards are being plauted and new trees 
are coming into bearing annually. In the 
volumes published by the Agricultural 
Department of New York State eutitled 
“The Apples of New York,” rhe Srnyman 
Winesap is considered of little value for 
New York. It is very different down 
here. This peninsula seems to be hotter 
suited to the Stay man than most other 
seetious. There is no better apple, in my 
estimation, when grown here. 1 have had 
specimens from the western Appalachian 
region, but the Staymnn grown in the 
mountain country is a very different ap¬ 
ple from the peninsula Staymati. It is 
dr\ and mealy, while the Stnyman grown 
here is brittle and juicy. If it only had a 
more brilliant color it would attract the 
city marketing woman away from the 
pretty Ben Davis. The one-sided York 
Imperial seems to be a cosmopolitan. It 
thrives everywhere and makes good 
“sass." but Stay in an is a long way ahead 
of it in quality for eating out of hand. 
But for baked apples we have no apple 
here that will compare with a big Rhode 
Island Greening. Still, as we do not 
grow Greenings, aud they are uot often 
brought here, we have to make out with 
the Yorks and others. The coming Win¬ 
ter the traveler who eats a baked apple 
on the dining car will have to shell ou' 
more than a quarter for it. I am told 
they charged this Summer 25 cents for 
half a cantaloupe, when the grower got 
less than a cent for a whole one. Talk 
about a 35-eent dollar! It would have 
been real money this Summer. 
Many watermelons have been shipped 
on sailing vessels this season to Balti¬ 
more. to cut out the heavy railroad 
charges. Coming from farther South, the 
railroads require the stems of the melons 
to be treated with a fungicide to prevent 
the decay of the melons in transit. Then 
the shaking and bumping of freight cars 
rub all the stems off and the melons un¬ 
just as good without them. Well-refrig 
era ted cars need no fungicide. 
It looks as though we will uot get any 
hard coal this Fall. Fortunately, we can 
get plenty of wood, and will try to keep 
from freezing. Then, as a last resort, 
we can heat with gas, though if is far 
more costly here than iti the large cities. 
But, with a son in the Shopmen’s Fnion 
on strike. I shall be greatly relieved when 
all the strikes are settled, w. t\ \i assfy. 
Mrs. Brown : “I hear the vicar thinks 
your daughter has a real genius for recit¬ 
ing, Mrs. Smith.” Mrs. Smith: “Yes. 
All she wants, lie says to me. is a course 
of electrocution, just to finish her off 
like.”—London Opinion. 
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