Notes from a Maryland Garden 
This October weather is so delightfully 
warm that I hope that the Hope Farm 
cotton may make some bolls. But after 
so long a period of rains and heat the 
present dry weather is having a worse- 
effect than if the Summer had been drier. 
The stand of spinach is very poor, and a 
late sowing for Spring cutting has a dry 
soil to contend with, for it is in a part of 
the garden where the overhead irrigation 
pipe does not reach, being an elbow at 
right angles with the rest of the garden. 
Our sweet potato growers are some¬ 
what encouraged by a better demand and 
improved price for the potatoes. In spite 
of the 'Spring rumors of destruction to the 
bloom, there are more apples than I have 
ever known in this section. I had a 
Stayman Winesap sent to me by parcel 
post as a good sample. It weighs 1 lb. 
exactly. It probably came from a young 
tree with light crop. A Stayman usu¬ 
ally attains a fair size, but a 1-lb. Stay- 
man is seldom seen. This one was grown 
in Southeast Virginia, and was one of a 
sample exhibited at the fair at Williams¬ 
burg. The Stayman is evidently better 
adapted to the Atlantic tidewater sec¬ 
tion. and grown here it is of far better 
quality than when grown in the moun¬ 
tains. In the volumes called “The Ap¬ 
ples of New York.” published by the New 
York Agricultural Department, the Stay- 
man is rated as of little value in New 
York. With plenty of them here of home 
growth, there will be little demand for 
the pretty apples from Oregon except for 
table ornament. 
An Ohio correspondent writes that his 
soil is a black limestone and rather waxy. 
He has many large shade trees, and there 
are always a great many leaves. He 
wishes to know if the waxy condition of 
his soil would not be relieved to some 
extent by burying these leaves. There 
is no doubt that the addition of any veg¬ 
etable material will be of benefit to the 
soil. But there are many so-called lime¬ 
stone soils which have very little connec¬ 
tion with the rock under them. They 
are sedimentary soils on top of lime rock, 
and often have less lime in them than 
soils on granite rook. The granite soil is 
formed from the decomposition of the 
rock. Even in granite there is some lit¬ 
tle lime. If your soil has not recently 
been limed, I would suggest that the 
waxy condition will be helped by har¬ 
rowing in 1.000 lbs. of slaked lime au 
acre. I have been on the black waxy 
soils of Texas, and I know what a waxy 
soil means. 
Another friend wishes to know about 
growing sweet potatoes in Western New 
York. I hardly think tkac you can grow 
sweet potatoes that will be fit to eat in 
the soil around Chautauqua Take. The 
Climate is against it. and the soil is not 
favorable to the crop. You will get 
something better to eat by buying the 
product of a more Southern and lighter 
soil. If you made any sweet potatoes in 
the neighborhood of Jamestown you 
would hardly find them fit to eat. 
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One year our bean field adjoined woods, 
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to have the garment light than dark. 
From each extended arm of the figure 
was suspended lengthwise by a few 
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