Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The trackers hereabouts are very much 
discouraged over the poor results of the 
Summer crops of cantaloupes, watermel¬ 
ons and tomatoes. I do not remember 
any so short a season for tomatoes. I 
always plant in succession in order to 
have them run through till frost, but this 
season everything grew with such rapid¬ 
ity that there seemed little difference be¬ 
tween early and late varieties. 
The Irish potato crop of the early va¬ 
rieties lias been heavy in the section 
south of us, and the price has been light 
and lower now than for many years. The 
great crop of this particular section is 
the sweet potato crop. The yield this 
year is large and the area likewise. One 
grower said that there are not enough 
storage houses in the county to hold the 
crop, and the demand North is light. The 
price, too, is lower than usual, but if one 
gets HO cents a bushel and makes .‘100 
bushels an acre il is not so had. 
One farmer said that the truck paid so 
badly he concluded that it was best to 
go lo growing cotton, for it will take a 
long time, he thinks, for the boll weevil 
to cross the 40 miles of salt water be¬ 
tween Norfolk and the Eastern Shore, 
This section formerly grew cotton in 
small patches in the days when the farm¬ 
ers kept, spinning wheels and hand looms 
and made fustian with cotton warp and 
wool filling and wore it. This blue fus¬ 
tian was the common clothing material 
on the farms up to the close of the Civil 
War, and there are plenty of men here 
now, and not very old ones, either, who 
wore it in their early days. Another 
season will doubtless put a new face on 
the matter, and the man who plants cot¬ 
ton and has to send it into Norfolk to 
he ginned and -haled will find that he 
would better have stuck to sweet potatoes 
and melons. The tomato cantiers are re¬ 
covering from the great slump in the 
value of their products at the sudden 
close of the war. More canners worked 
this season than last, and it is probable 
that next year will see a much larger 
planting of tomatoes. 
That kudzu plant has a big wagonload 
of forage on it now. The photograph, 
page 11 lit!, does not show its bulk, as it 
was taken edgewise of the mass. An 
acre of such plants would make an enor¬ 
mous crop of hay. It has gone clear 
over the coal house fgot four cords of 
wood stacked up in it now. read.v-out stove 
length, so we won’t freeze till coal gets 
here), and has grown drooping from the 
eaves on the other side. 
The tropical heat and moisture of the 
Summer made all plants outgrow then- 
normal size. M.v Dahlias have grown 
over 7 ft. high, and the stakes intended 
to hold them erect are perfectly useless 
for that purpose, and many plants have 
fallen over. The ('annas, too. have out¬ 
grown the heights given them in cat¬ 
alogue lists. But if has been a fruitful 
season. I gathered a peek of quinces 
from a hush of Pyrus Japonien not 
higher than my head. These make good 
marmalade. The red bloom of this plant 
generally appears so early in Spring, and 
in North Carolina often blooms in mid¬ 
winter, that the fruit is seldom made. 
The greatest show in the Cannn beds 
was made by the bronze leafed King 
Humbert. There have been many new 
orange scarlet Faunas introduced, and I 
have tried most of them, but King Hum¬ 
bert has not yet been excelled, if 
matched. w. f. massey. 
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