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The Home Acre. 
NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
The garden has been heavily covered 
all over with old rotten manure, both 
on the vacamt ground and between the 
rows of the Winter crops of onions, spin¬ 
ach and kale, and now this will be sup¬ 
plemented with an application of 1,000 
pounds an acre of a mixture of eight per 
cent phosphoric acid and 10 per cent pot¬ 
ash, for my sandy soil needs the potash. 
And right here is where a great many 
people fail with their gardens. I had 
two letters this week from people asking 
advice about their gardens. Both of 
them said that the garden was very rich, 
and they have been covering it with sta¬ 
ble manure every Spring for years. But 
they said that Irish potatoes make tops 
of immense size and no potatoes; that 
Lima beans made wonderful vines and 
set full of pods which shrivelled and 
dropped, and onions all went to scallions. 
They had been dosing the garden with 
nitrogenous matter with very little of 
the seed-forming and bulb and tuber¬ 
making mineral matters. That is, they 
had got the soil rich in nitrogen, and had 
for years been using up the phosphorus 
and potassium. 
I try to keep up a balance in the plant 
food, and have no such difficulty. My 
Irish potatoes make immense vines, and 
make potatoes too. My lama beans grow 
wonderfully, and bear loads of well-filled 
pods, simply because the plant foods that 
are needed for the making of starch are 
there, and starch is an essential thing in 
making seed and potatoes. We are get¬ 
ting now lettuce from the frames on 
which I have the double-glazed sash¬ 
es, which need no mats. Then outside 
we are getting salsify, spinach, leeks, 
kale and carrots, all of which I leave in 
the ground where they grew, and lift 
them as wanted. Leeks we are fond of, 
and they take the place of the green on¬ 
ions until we get the onions in March. 
I have two varieties of onions planted 
last Fall. The earliest green onions we 
get from the Norfolk Queen. This is a 
flat white onion, larger than the Queen 
of the northern catalogues, and makes 
the earliest green onions. In mild Win¬ 
ters they are often large enough liei'e to 
use in February and always in March. 
The other variety is the Yellow Potato 
onion. These make no seed, but increase 
by offsets. These can be pulled in April 
for green onions, and they make a fine 
succession to the Norfolk Queen, while 
the main bulbs will ripen into very large 
onions. The Norfolk kale is better than 
the green Curled Scotch in eating quali¬ 
ty, and I now grow it only, though the 
Scotch will make the heaviest crop. Part 
of my spinach was sown in late August, 
and has been giving us fine cuttings all 
the Fall. The remainder was not sown 
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till October, as we wanted it simply to 
get large enough to winter over and make 
growth in the Spring. I never sow' spin¬ 
ach in the Spring, but sow’ chard as a 
Summer substitute. We can pull the 
leaves of the chard as soon as they are as 
large as ordinary spinach leaves, and it 
is hard to distinguish these young leaves 
from spinach wffien cooked. But I al¬ 
ways sow plenty, in rows like beets, for 
the plants that are allowed to develop 
full-sized leaves make long leaf stalks, 
and these are pulled off like rhubarb and 
trimmed and cooked and dressed like 
asparagus, and make a very fine dish. 
Down here the large White Lima bean 
is never very productive, and for a climb¬ 
ing bean we use the Small Lima or Sieva, 
which in fact I consider a better table 
bean than the large ones. But we have 
the largest of the large ones in the Ford- 
hook Bush Lima, which bears the thick 
or potato Lima beans, and is very pro¬ 
ductive. But it will not do to crowd 
them in the rows like the string beans. 
They make stout plants, and productive 
ones only W'hen given a foot in the row. 
The crop now being planted in the 
frames, or rather crops, are the Prize- 
taker onions, for transplanting in March. 
Then under the double-glazed sashes w r e 
sow radishes and beets in alternate rows 
six inches apart, and the radishes come 
out before the beets need the room, and 
in March the beets are hardened and the 
sashes removed to other frames, in which 
the tomato plants are spotted out from 
the greenhouse. 
My rule for sowing early tomato seed 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 14, 
anywhere is 10 weeks before it is usually 
safe to set them in the open ground, 
which means hei'e from 15tli to 20th of 
February. But last Spring we came 
near having a disaster with them, for 
we had a fi'eeze May 11. It was Sunday 
night, and returning from church I found 
that there was sure to be frost, and with 
shovel and lantern I went to work and 
bent the tomato plants over carefully and 
shovelled the soil over them, and saved 
them, though the mercury in the morning 
stood at 28, a most unprecedented thing 
here in May. One row of sti’ing beans 
was saved also. 
In the flower gai’deu I find that Dahl¬ 
ias keep safer buried outside. I dig a 
shallow pit, cover the bottom with straw, 
and pack the roots in, and cover them 
thickly with old newspapers, and then 
mound the soil over them in a sharp heap 
to shed the rain. Last Spring when I 
i-emoved the earth and the papers I found 
them all started with shoots five inches 
long. Cannas need a little moi’e heat, 
and I keep these in the cellar in the 
farther corner from the hot-water boiler, 
and I keep thousands of Gladioli in the 
same cellar, as far away from the boiler 
as possible. My main crop of Fall-plant¬ 
ed bulbs is the Candidum lily. These ai*e 
planted in September, as it is necessary 
for them to make a rosette of green leaves 
for the Winter. 
My first planting of Sweet peas was 
made on the 21st of January. A trench 
a spit deep was dug along a wire net¬ 
ting fence, and filled half full of old 
rotten manure, covered slightly, and the 
peas sown and covei'ed about five inches 
deep. More are yet to be sown as soon 
as there is a favorable spell, for we must 
get these in early, so as to get them in 
bloom before the weather gets too hot. 
Maryland. w. f. massey. 
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