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NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
A DRY SEASON.—The driest Sum¬ 
mer I have ever known has closed 
in the midst of arid conditions. Spring 
was very dry, and no rain till the first of 
July, when we had good rains and hoped 
that the drought was over. But the rains 
stopped till August, and we had good ones 
the early part of that month, and then an¬ 
other stoppage, and hero is the last of 
September and still no rain, and a tem¬ 
perature of 95 the Tast week in this 
month. The great tomato canning crop is 
a very important one here, for every far¬ 
mer plants a field in tomatoes for some 
one of the fifty or more canning ho ses in 
this county. The crop was late and the 
drought has cut it short, and many claim 
that they will not have more than half a 
crop. 
Drought Damage. —In my garden the 
drought has made very serious damage, 
and many things have been affected in an 
unusual manner. I am now lifting Gladi¬ 
olus corms. The majority of them, in¬ 
stead of making the one or two good-sized 
corms on top of the old one, have broken 
up into half a dozen or more little corms 
less than an inch in diameter. These 
little corms will all probably bloom, but 
are wholly unsalable, for people who buy 
bulbs of any sort always want large ones, 
'i’he one exception has been the America. 
Why these have developed to the normal 
size in the same plot where others run 
small is hard to understand. But even 
these have failed to make the mass of 
little corms usually found between the 
new and the old conn, and America usu¬ 
ally makes a great many of these. My 
eggplants were heavily mulched with 
stable manure, which has had some effect 
in retaining moisture, and the plants have 
made a wonderful growth, but have pro¬ 
duced fewer fruits than I have ever 
known on the usually prolific eggplant. 
Last year I had a trellis 50 feet long cov¬ 
ered with moonflowers. and they seeded 
finely, so that I was able to supply quite 
a lot of seed to the Northern trade. This 
year the moonflowers have grown and 
bloomed finely, but never a seedpod 
formed. One would suppose that the arid 
season won hi be favorable to the setting 
of seed. But probably the bees have been 
driven to the swamps and low grounds, 
and a lack of insects may have had some¬ 
thing to do with the scant seed-setting. 
Vegetables. —Spinach seed sown early 
in August has almost entirely failed to 
germinate in the dry soil, and I have 
sown a lot in a plot v/here I can reach 
with the hose and keep it watered daily, 
and am getting some started which will 
probably get large enough to winter, but 
we shall be short of Fall spinach. But 
through all the dry weather we have had 
one resource in the chard. This has boon 
our dependence for boiled greens, and it 
takes the place of spinach very well. We 
keep the big outer leaves pulled off to en¬ 
courage the production of the inner and 
more tender leaves. Leeks are i ncom- 
monly small, but we may have some rain 
yet, and these hardy things will grow till 
Christmas and may still give us leeks this 
Winter. 
Late Sowing. —The Chinese Itose-col- 
ored radish seed has just been sown. 
These we mulch heavily with manure in 
Winter and generally keep them in good 
condition for use. The lettuce frames 
will now be the chief thing to be looking 
after. Plants for the Christmas crop are 
now nearly large enough to prick out into 
flats to get stout for setting in the frames, 
and I shall still sow seed inside to plant 
for the succession Winter and early 
Spring crop. Cabbage seed has not ger¬ 
minated yet, and it looks as though I 
shall have to depend on plants from the 
frames for planting in Spring, and leave 
out the Fall setting entirely. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Brassington Cherry. 
T HE Brashington cherry, about which 
J. F. S. inquires on page 1213, is 
probably the Brassington, a comparative¬ 
ly new sour cherry of considerable merit, 
originating, I believe, in Michigan. As 
grown on the Experiment Station grounds 
the trees are moderately vigorous, very 
erect growing. The fruit is larger and 
darker than Early Richmond, and is of 
excellent quality when fully ripe. The 
characteristics of tree and fruit leads to 
the impression that it belongs to the Duke 
Class. PAUL TIIAYEK. 
Ohio Experiment Station. 
Perfume from Scented Geranium. 
I HAVE been informed that perfume can 
be made from Sweet scented geranium 
leaves. Could you tell me how this 
can be done? n. c. 
Long Island. 
The essential oil of scented geranium is 
used by perfumers, and is also an adul¬ 
terant of attar of roses. The process of 
extracting flower oils, which is followed 
in extracting essential oil from leaves 
also, was described quite fully in Tiie 
R. N.-Y., issue of October 11, 1913, page 
1105. The appliances called for were a 
steam can, herb can, and condenser, with 
an overflow for waste water and a recep¬ 
tacle for the finished product. For the 
steam can, a clean five-gallon oil can is 
suggested ; a pipe of lead or pure tin from 
this enters the herb can at the top reach¬ 
ing down, inside, to the bottom. Another 
pipe soldered into the top of the herb can 
leads to the condenser. The top of the 
herb can must screw or clamp tight, so 
that there is no leakage of steam. There 
are various types of condensers; the arti¬ 
cle we printed last year warned against 
the glass coil, which is cheap, but unsat¬ 
isfactory unless the operator knows how 
to use it. The old form of a metal coil 
in a pail or tub of water may be used, 
but a glass condenser with rubber tube 
may be bought from a chemical supply 
house, and this is preferable. The Allihn 
type is advised ; the straight Liebig type 
permits the steam to blow through. 
The steam can, with a vertical tube at 
the top to act as safety-valve and give 
warning when the water is low, should be 
nearly filled with water to start, and the 
herb can, with the steam tube reaching 
below the false bottom, should be packed 
with the flowers or herbs. The flow of 
water in condenser may be from one pail 
to another. Of course, there is a sep¬ 
arate flask or other vessel to receive the 
distillate. When the charge is exhausted 
the oily drops or milky flow cease, and 
only water comes out. 
Anyone wishing to operate such a still 
should register it with the Internal Rev¬ 
enue Office for his district, to avoid any 
risk of injurious suspicion. The Bureau 
of riant Industry, U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Washington, can supply 
practical information on the distilling of 
perfumes, having literature available on 
the subject, and it would be well to secure 
this matter from them. 
California Poison Oak. 
I S the poison oak of California and the 
Pacific Coast the same as the poison 
i\y of the Atlantic States, and will it 
respond to the same preventive and cur¬ 
ative treatment as the other? The poison 
oak here, on poor thin soil is a small 
bush; in rich deep soil it is a much lar¬ 
ger and thicker bush; when it grows next 
to a large oak in good soil it becomes a 
vigorous climber. A. L. B. 
Oakland, Cal. 
The poison oak of California, also 
called poison ivy, yeara and poison sum¬ 
ach is Rhus diversiloba, and is closely 
related to Rhus radicans, the poison ivy 
of the East. The same treatment and 
preventives apply to this plant as to the 
poison ivy. 
D URING the past year we have had a 
great many questions about the pos¬ 
sibilities of nut culture in New Eng¬ 
land. It is very evident that our readers 
in that section are much interested in this 
nut proposition. All who are so Literes- 
ed should read the document on nut cul¬ 
ture by William ('. Doming, which is is¬ 
sued by the State Board of Agriculture at 
Boston. This document is known as 
“Nut Culture for Massachusetts,” and is 
Circular No. 2G, issued in June, 1914. 
Dr. Dealing gives a thorough study of the 
matter as applied to New England. 
Among other things, he predicts that the 
time is coming when the future American 
will grow nut trees, and between them 
beaus and Alfalfa; ho will keep some 
chickens and f. cow and be forever inde¬ 
pendent of the butcher, although he may 
have to send to the grocer now and then 
for a codfish from which to make codfish 
balls. When this happy time comes we 
shall all have to get nut trees. The pam¬ 
phlet is an excellent one, and we com¬ 
mend it to our readers who are interested 
in nuts. 
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