Horticultural Notes 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
This is the fifth of December, and no 
coal to be had. It is fortunate that, so 
far we have had no cold weather to 
amount to much. We are still cutting 
lettuce from the open garden. It is red* 
, delicti some on the outer leaves, hut the 
heads are white within. The spinach is 
BUnscorehed and the Ieohs are growing. 
When the controller will let any coal 
come this way we cannot guess. One of 
my neighbors on whom I am depending 
for sweet potatoes, which I did not grow 
this season, has a unique way of keeping 
a sale supply on hand. Ilis land lies 
outside the city, but he lives inside the 
city limits, and has a barn and stables 
at his residence, lie has two stables, one 
for horses and the other for cows, with 
what is ordinarily a feed alley between, 
lie has a large storage house for potatoes 
in the country, but keeps a sale supply of 
40 to 50 bushels in the stable in a slatted 
bin in the passageway between the sta¬ 
bles. They are bedded and covered with 
pine needles, and the animal heat main¬ 
tains a temperature well suited to and to 
the keeping of sweet potatoes. He keeps 
them well there. 
I find that I must repeat that I have 
nothing for sale. I have no facilities for 
packing and shipping, and live a mile 
from the post office, and the letter car¬ 
riers will not take parcel post packages, 
and in my eighty-fourth year I cannot 
tote them to the office. Much as T would 
like to accommodate people who want a 
few sweet potatoes, it is out of the ques¬ 
tion for me to undertake it. Dealers in 
the Northern cities can easily get the 
Southern yam varieties of sweet pota¬ 
toes, and it is through them that they 
should get the supply. 
Thanksgiving Day was a lovely warm 
and sunny day. The turkey and fixin’s 
were duly enjoyed, and my small family 
of three have been the greater part of 
the week winding up the turkey, which 
came to us from the real Old Virginia, 
the town of Williamsburg, once the capi¬ 
tal, where one of my daughters is home 
economics agent, and duly forwarded the 
turkey for the home folks as part of her 
work in home economies. North Caro¬ 
lina ami Virginia are forging ahead of 
Maryland in agricultural matters and 
also in public health care. North Caro¬ 
lina has one of the most effective health 
boards in the country and Maryland one 
of the weakest. In fact. North Carolina 
is one of the most progressive States. 
Her State College of Agriculture and 
Engineering has taken a high rank among 
the laud grant colleges from the start. 
Starting just at the time when the ex¬ 
periment stations started and made the 
teaching of agriculture possible, the 
North Carolina college has kept in the 
van, because the farmers of the State 
gave it their earnest hacking, while the 
Maryland college for years simply ex¬ 
isted. unsupported by State or the farm¬ 
ers of the State. A brighter day is dawn¬ 
ing for the Maryland college with its 
new organization and its incorporation as 
an integral part of the State University. 
The extension work through County 
Agents and demonstrators is the out¬ 
growth of the work of colleges and sta¬ 
tions. The institutes doubtless did great 
good and opened the way to the agent. 
A man realizes far more from a demon¬ 
stration on liis own land than from any 
number of lectures in the institutes. In 
old communities where men have done 
fairly good farming for generations, as 
among the Germans of Southeast Penn¬ 
sylvania, the institutes did not seem to 
make much advance. The Pennsylvania 
Dutchmen would crowd the institutes 
and listen, and then go home and do as 
they did before, ltut once convince the 
German on his own land that a change 
in his method pays, and he takes it up 
readily. “Show me’’ is the best way to 
get behind a farmer’s prejudices. And 
the home economics agents iu the rural 
schools arc training the future house¬ 
wives of the farms, and as a result the 
living conditions on the farms will be 
improved and the day of soda biscuits 
will disappear before the making of real 
bread. It is true that last year there 
were but 2,100 counties in which agents 
were working, but the method must 
spread as people everywhere come to un¬ 
derstand what the Government is waiting 
to do in all the other counties East and 
West. 
One of my daughters, whose husband 
is an army surgeon, has been living for 
some time in New Orleans, where her 
husband has been looking after the dis* 
abled soldiers in the hospitals there. She 
found the climate in New Orleans very 
depressing. Her husband was recently 
Ordered to Atlanta, and she finds it de¬ 
lightful to get into that cold, elevated 
section, 1,000 ft. above the sea level. She 
says they feel like new folks simply from 
breathing a better air. I suppose the 
bracing atmosphere is the main reason 
for people liking to live up iu the Medi¬ 
cine Hat country. We folks living down 
near the ocean always feel better when 
we get into the more elevated interior, 
but nevertheless we shrink from the qold 
we read about in the North. We have 
plenty of frost and cold here for me, 
therefore I prefer the medium climate. 
We are now getting a good mulch be¬ 
tween the rows of the Iceberg lettuce, 
which we hope to winter over for Spring 
heading. The onions and other vege¬ 
tables in the garden will also get the 
annual mulch. The leeks, thanks to the 
moist Summer, made the largest growth 
I have ever had, and they ate very ac¬ 
ceptable, being enough like onions to 
smell a little, but are far milder. We 
find them fine, only wish we had planted 
more of them. The green curled Scotch 
kale has had just enough frost to make 
It good, and we have it as an alternate 
with spinach. Individually I eat greens 
only on spinach days. Then we have 
what the seedsmen call Long-standing 
kale or Siberian kale. This we lot grow 
and have it at hand for the first Spring 
greens to alternate with the spinach. 
And yet thousands of farmers never think 
of these things, and eat salt food all 
Winter when greens would add greatly 
to their Winter well being. 
The first Spring greens here are usu¬ 
ally the wild Winter cress, Barbarea 
pnocox. The colored folk gather this 
and bring it to town for sale. It is often 
a pest in the wheatfields, and the farmers 
are glad to have it cut before seeding. 
It can be eaten raw like watercress and, 
in fact, it tastes the same, or it can be 
boiled and makes a very acceptable spe¬ 
cies of greens. In my boyhood it was 
common to use in Spring the young 
sprouts of the pokeweed, but of late years 
I seldom hear of anyone eatiug poke. 
People have gotten to growing better 
food, as they learn that other folks prize 
kale and spinach, and they can get money 
by growing them for market. 
The prospect is that there will be a 
smaller area planted in potatoes—both 
Irish and sweet—until the market gets 
over its present load. The poor results 
of this season’s potatoes and melons will 
make some growers drop out, and there 
will be an increase of tomato planting for 
the canners, and it looks as though the 
old predominance of the Peninsula in the 
canning of tomatoes will be restored. The 
regular truckers will stick to their crops, 
with perhaps a smaller area, but they 
know that a bad season is apt to be fol¬ 
lowed by a profitable one. as the tem¬ 
porary speculating growers will many of 
them drop out. w. F. MASSEY. 
Late-blooming Roses 
I notice in your last issue that Prof. 
Massey speaks of a rose better than the 
"Jack. ’ and remarks nu its late blooming, 
and that lie picked a rose on November •*>. 
It might interest him to know that I 
picked "Jacks" this Fall as late as No¬ 
vember 21. cutting six blooms on that 
date. I picked through October and up 
to November 21 from six to two dozen 
per day. Blooms were* fine, but stems 
short ; that is, 4 to G in. 1 have a Inal 
of 400 bushes to pick from, and some of 
the bushes are over 40 years old. The 
weather here has been remarkable, and out 
on the north end of the island some apple 
trees had a few blooms the first part of 
November. I cut lettuce in the open 
ground last week, but everything is 
frozen now (November 281. * c. c. t. 
Newport. R. I. 
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