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Iht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September 2?>, 1922 
Notes From a Maryland Garden 
1 was rather amused at the experience 
of N. S. P. in growing asparagus direct 
from the seed. Sowing seed at the bot¬ 
tom of a 12-inch trench and in the poorer 
soil he could not have expected anything 
but a slow germination and slow growth. 
I have fouud from long experience I hat 
when properly sown I can get cutting of 
asparagus a year sooner from the seed 
than from roots planted at the same time, 
but I make the fur ro tvs 12 to 15 in. deep 
and fill them half full of old fine manure, 
cover them with soil and sow the seed 
when the trench is not over •* or 4 in. 
deep. What does anyone want with the 
roots a foot deep in the ground? Shoots 
cut down deeply look all right fo the eye, 
but the white butts are hat'd, and green 
asparagus sells better and eats better. 
Sown as I sow the seed, there is no more 
difficulty in weeding and cultivating than 
with the transplanted roots. r l’he seed¬ 
ling will, at the end of the first season, 
be much stouter than those from the 
roots. Treated as N. S. I*, did, I would 
not expect any better results than he has 
had. 1 have never soaked the seed of 
asparagus, and when sown properly and 
very early in the Spring it germinates 
readily if fresh seed. Asparagus seed 
sown here in February will germinate in 
a lower temperature than (lie Summer 
weeds. Sown late, it lias a poor chance 
with the weeds. People often get poor 
results from a method because they fail 
to adopt the best practice. I use nitrate 
of soda freely on the* young seedlings in 
Summer, and would also use it if T 
planted roots. The last asparagus bed 1 
sowed and planted took the roots four 
years to catch up with the seedlings. 
A Philadelphia daily paper suggests 
editorially t«» the gardeners that earlj 
September, when (he seed pods are ready 
to burst, is the time for the gardeners to 
get after the weeds. This may he a city 
editor’s idea of gardening, but the gar¬ 
deners will not have weeds ready to 
hurst their seed pods. They know a far 
better plan—by not having the weeds. 
Letting weeds grow till the seeds are ripe 
is not gardening, except to the man in a 
city office. When a city editor ventures 
advice to country people lie usually makes 
a mess of it. 
Philadelphia has a county fair at By¬ 
berry. There are so many farms and 
gardens inside the city limits that Phila¬ 
delphia should be able to make a fine dis¬ 
play of the products of the fertile soil of 
Southeast Pennsylvania. It would seem 
that Greater New York City, with the 
help "f Jersey, could have an annual farm 
fair that would he an enlightenment to 
her citizens. 
The. only bloom in the shrubbery now 
is the Althea*. The double rose Althea 
has been making quite a show, as the 
plant stands out alone on the lawn. It 
has been covered with its big rose-colored 
flowers like a great rose bush. These 
will wind up the shrubbery bloom, except 
the scanty late bloom on Spimea An¬ 
thony Waterer, which still persists in 
trying to bloom. \V. F. MASSEY. 
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