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NOTES FROM A MARYLAND FARM. 
We are having our annual February 
cold snap. It always comes with the 
full moon in February. I do not know 
that the moon has anything to do with 
it, except that the atmosphere is apt 
to be very clear at that time and radia¬ 
tion rapid. But we always look for this 
spell to break the Winter, for we rarely 
have any real Winter after it passes. 
The sweet peas sown in January are 
not yet up, but the Fall planted ones 
are thriving and promise an early bloom, 
and I shall sow some more after the cold 
snap to see what the difference will be 
with these and the usual January plant¬ 
ing. It is necessary, however, to get 
these started early if we are to have any 
bloom at all, for they soon succumb to 
the hot weather in late May. 
Owing to the mild Winter the leeks 
and the green onions are lapping. Leeks 
are still in the garden, and the onions 
planted from sets in September are al¬ 
ready large enough to use. For early 
green onions I plant sets of the Norfolk 
Queen, a larger onion than the Queen 
of the Northern catalogues, but still a 
very early one. These are followed by 
the potato onions, the offsets of which 
furnish green onions and the large bulbs 
are left to ripen. 
My first sowing of tomato seed was 
made February 10, in a flat in the green¬ 
house. They will be transplanted to 
other flats as soon as large enough to 
handle, and from these will be set in the 
cold frame, giving room to make short 
stout plants. As I use on the frames 
the double glazed sashes which keep out 
all ordinary frost. 1 can set the plants 
in the frames early in March, and by ex¬ 
posing them to the air at every oppor¬ 
tunity, can keep them short and make 
strong plants that are not long and weak- 
kneed, and they grow off without much of 
a check as they lift from the frame with 
quite a mass of soil. 
Eggplant seed is not sown till March, 
and potted and shifted from small pots 
to fours, and kept in the greenhouse till 
the leaves are as large as my hand, for 
it is useless to try to harden an egg¬ 
plant, and they are not set till the soil 
is quite warm if that takes till June. 
I have discarded all but the Black 
Beauty, as it gives me more fruit than 
any other variety. 
Just at this time friends are sending 
me sundry seeds for trial. To-day I had 
from a correspondent in Southern Colo¬ 
rado a pod and seed of what he calls 
Pueblo Chili, a sweet pepper of a shiny 
coal black color. This will add to the 
trial plants in my collection. Then from 
Arizona comes a lot of seed of Frijole 
Colorado, a pinkish bean, which I shall 
also try in a small way. Several years 
ago I had from Mexico fruits of Physalis 
purpurea, a very large variety of the 
husk tomato, so-called; these I put in the 
hands of a Philadelphia seedsman, w T ho 
now lists it. It is as large as a medium¬ 
sized tomato, and immensely larger than 
the old Physalis Alkekengi. Another 
friend sent me a few of the Tapary bean 
of New Mexico. Perhaps this may thrive 
in our sandy soil, as it is said to be very 
drought resistant. 
Last Summer I planted some dasheens 
sent by the Department of Agriculture. 
The crop was not large owing to the 
very dry Summer, but I have quite a lot 
to plant this Spring, and will put them 
where the hose can reach them and hope 
for better success. 
Last Summer, too, 1 had wonderful 
success with the Spotted-leaf calla as a 
bedding plant. A mass of these was very 
pretty and bloomed finely. This plant 
is perfectly hardy here, but I lifted the 
roots to divide and replant like potatoes. 
Massed where they can get plenty of 
water they make a very pretty bed, and 
increase wonderfully. The wkite-spathed 
flowers have a purple base, and are not 
as large as the calla grown in the green¬ 
houses, but being Summer-bloomers are 
useful. W. F. MASSEY. 
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will kill it. somebody’s got to pay.”— 
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