1914. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1339 
The Home Acre. 
NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
G ladioli from seed.— it is now 
near the middle of October, and the 
weather seems to have turned back to 
Summer since the cool September, for 
last week we had the mercury up to 90 
on one day, and warm Summer weather 
all the time. The favorable conditions 
have brought out a wonderful bloom on 
the Dahlias, which a little while back 
seemed to be nearly a failure. Now they 
never were finer. Last week at the meet¬ 
ing of the Vegetable Growers of America 
in Philadelphia I was particularly at¬ 
tracted by the exhibit of Dahlias and Gla¬ 
dioli made by Mr. Burpee. The Gladioli 
were especially interesting, not only for 
the lateness, but the beauty of the flowers, 
and the fact that they were grown this 
season from seed sown in May. I have 
had Gladiolus corms get large enough the 
first season to bloom the next year, but 
never had any to bloom the first season 
from seed. 
Drought and Vegetables. —The dry 
Summer has made some peculiar con¬ 
ditions in the vegetable garden. I 
sowed my first spinach, as usual, for Fall 
cutting early in August. Here and there 
a solitary plant made its appearance, and 
after waiting a month I ran out rows be¬ 
tween the first ones and sowed again. 
Since the more favorable conditions since 
the first of October, all the sowings have 
grown well and I now have a thick stand 
of small plants, and here and there a big 
one ready to cut. My last sowing of 
spinach to winter over for Spring was 
made October 9. I have found that seed 
sown during the first half of October up 
to the middle of the month will give me 
better plants for the Spring than those 
sown earlier, as they do not run to seed 
so quickly, and they always get large 
enough to pass our Winters here, where 
the climate is much modified by the ocean 
on one side and the broad Chesapeake on 
the other. The influence of a great body 
of salt water is peculiar on some things. 
Right down along the bay shore and on 
the ocean front the figs grow and bear 
luxuriantly, while a few miles in the in¬ 
terior they are sure to get killed back 
every Winter. 
Fall Onions. —My onion sets of the 
Norfolk Queen and the Yellow Potato 
onion planted in September are now 
well up, and growing rapidly, and an¬ 
other planting of the Queen was made on 
ninth of October. This onion makes the 
earliest of green onions, and I have in 
mild Winters had them ready the last of 
February, and always in March. I throw 
a small furrow to each side of the rows in 
November as a Winter protection to be 
pulled away early in Spring. 
Strawberries. —We have found that 
here and southward November is the 
best time to set strawberry plants. The 
soil is then permanently moist for the 
Winter, and they live better than earlier. 
In North Carolina I have had the Novem¬ 
ber-set plants make nearly a full crop in 
the Spring. Just now I am watching 
with interest some seedling strawberries 
which have maintained a vivid green all 
through the dry, hot weather. We can¬ 
not hope to produce fruit much better 
than many varieties we already have, but 
if we can grow plants with vigorous re¬ 
sistance to untoward conditions, which 
make good fruit, it will be an advantage, 
for many of the best fruits have the bad 
character of rusting foliage in Summer. 
Tomatoes. —The tomato canners are 
nearly through their season and it 
has been comparatively a short one, as 
the crop was late, and cut short by the 
dry weather. The pack will be larger 
than was once expected, however. 
Gladiolus. — The Gladiolus corms 
are smaller than usual, owing to the 
drought, but I have never seen them make 
such masses of cormlets, though these 
were scarce on some when I began the 
digging, while further on the corms were 
literally covered with the little ones. As 
the Gladiolus stands the Winter here, and 
the scattered sets come up in Spring like 
wheat, I shall sow a lot of the little corm¬ 
lets in November, expecting to have bet¬ 
ter germination in the Spring. The 
earliest blooms I had this year were from 
corms overlooked last Fall in digging. 
But we dig them in the Fall to get the 
ground for other things. Fall planting of 
all deciduous trees and fruit trees is far 
better here than Spring planting. Our 
soil does not freeze deeply and they make 
new root fibers and root hairs ready for 
the swelling buds in Spring and I have al¬ 
ways had the trees and also shrubbery to 
live better from Fall planting. 
Maryland. w. F. massey. 
Preparing Celery for Winter. 
A S it is now time for preparing celery 
for Winter keeping, I wish to tell 
my experience with it during the 
last two years. In the Summer, when 
ready to transplant my celery, I have 
a deep trench dug the length of my gar¬ 
den. As my garden slopes gently in that 
part of it I find it very easy, in case of 
a dry spell, to supply the plants with 
water by simply pouring cans of water 
at one end of the row and letting it run 
the full length of the row. Care must 
be taken to pour the water very slowly 
when the plants are small, else they will 
be washed out. I grow Golden Self¬ 
blanching, and begin banking it up in 
September. I simply gather each bunch 
together and wrap it. not too tightly, 
with a short strip of cloth, and then pack 
the dirt tightly around it. The trench 
facilitates the first banking also con¬ 
tinuous banking goes on until danger of 
a freeze, when it is covered for the Win¬ 
ter. I do this by covering it over very 
deeply with clover chaff and just let the 
celery remain in the ground. During the 
Winter, when you wish celery, pull away 
some of the chaff, get your celery and 
for whiteness, crispness and tenderness 
it cannot be beaten. MRS. W. F. N. 
Clymers, Ind. 
Oct. 26. Wheat $1.05; oats 50; corn 
78; potatoes 50 to 65. Hay $14 to 816; 
cabbage $2 to $4 per 100; carrots 50 
per bushel; turnips 50. Ilogs 7 to 8 
cents per pound live; cattle 5 to 8; 
chickens 11 to 15; eggs 85; butter 30 
to 38; apples 50 to $1 per bushel; pears, 
Keiffer, 50 to 75; onions 75. w. c. s. 
Berea, Ohio. 
Oct. 25. Conditions in this section of 
Nebraska continue favorable. The weath¬ 
er has been ideal warm and dry most of 
the time, with enough rain to keep pas¬ 
tures green and making ideal conditions 
for the growth of Fall wheat. There has 
been a large area sown to wheat, the 
time for seeding extending from Septem¬ 
ber 10 to October 20. This late seeding 
is done for the purpose of avoiding Hes¬ 
sian fly, but experience has proved that 
such late-sown wheat has a good chance 
of making a better yield than the earl¬ 
ier sown. Corn husking has begun, and 
the yield is moderate, as high as 50 
bushels per acre, and down probably an 
average of 25 bushels. To the east of us, 
however, as far as the Missouri River, 
the crop is very much lighter. There is 
an abundance of hay, both wild and Al¬ 
falfa. Timothy and clover are not raised 
in very large quantities, although both 
do well here. Potatoes are a fair crop, 
but many carloads have already been 
shipped in from the sand hill country of 
Northwest Nebraska, also from Minne¬ 
sota at the Red River region. Cabbage 
comes from somewhere outside the State, 
and sells at $1.25 per 100 pounds. Hogs 
seem to be scarce, still the markets are 
well supplied, and prices are around two 
cents off per pound. There is a decided 
slump in price of horses and milch cows, 
probably 25 per cent. Wheat is now 
selling at 96 cents; oats 45; corn 75 for 
old corn; potatoes 70 to 80; hay $9; 
butter 25; eggs 20. Apples from the 
Ozark region $1 at car. There has been 
no frost yet, and none in sight. 
Fairbury, Nebr. h. m. R. 
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