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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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The Home Acre. 
NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
W E seldom get much cold weather here 
till January, but, after a bright and 
mild early Fall, December has given us 
storms, and the past three mornings the 
mercury has marked 14 degrees above 
zero, and with bright sunshine the tem¬ 
perature does not get many degrees above 
the freezing point during the day. As it 
seldom gets much colder than this all 
Winter, the prospect seems for a hard 
Winter ahead. Gardening now is a mat¬ 
ter of glass. The lettuce in the frames 
under the double-glazed sashes seems 
to be quite happy, and outdoors, where 
the garden is wintering under a thick 
coat of manure, the spinach makes a 
green area, and th'e Fall-sown sweet peas 
are demonstrating their ability to with¬ 
stand cold. But it will be only a few 
weeks before some outdoor work is usu¬ 
ally done. Peas of the Alaska type I always 
try to get planted during a warm spell in 
January. The wrinkled peas are not plant¬ 
ed till March. Furrows are already made 
and the manure put in them where the 
cantaloupes are to be planted in April. 
Hundreds of acres around me are thus 
prepared, for the market growers find 
that it is not practicable to buy rotten 
manure, and hence get their manure early 
and put it in the furrows to be rotting 
for the planting time. Preparing the 
land in the Fall also saves a great deal 
from the Spring rush of work. 
As soon as the Christmas lettuce is 
cut, the frames will be planted in beets 
and radishes, and a considerable space 
sown to seed of the Prizetaker and Giant 
Gibraltar onions to make plants for set¬ 
ting out in late March. With the sun 
advancing northward, January marks the 
Spring in the greenhouse, and seed of 
scarlet sage and other plants for bedding 
are sown, and the geraniums rooted in 
the Fall, and growing in small pots, will 
be shifted into the four-inch size, and 
by the first of March will be plunged in 
a cold frame to give room for other 
things that will be crowding in and the 
seed flats of the tomatoes and other gar¬ 
den vegetables. 
Without some glass, the garden at this 
season of the year should be desolate, but 
with the glass in the shape of a little 
greenhouse and a lot of sashes on frames, 
the Winter garden is often as interesting 
and pleasurable as the Summer one, and 
the importance of the glass in preparing 
for Summer is well known to all ex¬ 
perienced gardeners. Even in my office 
I try to maintain some greenery. I have 
a triple window on the south front, eight 
feet wide, and in front of this a six- 
foot box that adorned the front porch all 
Summer has now been placed and filled 
with Asparagus Sprengeri, which has 
now made a long mass of its drooping 
branches, and very much enlivens the 
space between the typewriter desk and 
the window. 
Then a plant of that very graceful 
palm, Phoenix Roebelinii, with its fronds 
branching over three feet, is another at¬ 
tractive feature. Of all the palms for 
house culture I have found none equal to 
this representative of the date palm fam¬ 
ily. It stands the dry heat of the house per¬ 
fectly, and is about as graceful as the 
pretty Cocos Weddeliana, which is much 
harder to keep in good condition outside 
the greenhouse. The Phoenix mentioned 
above is still among the high-priced 
palms, for a plant the size of mine would 
be worth $3 at trade prices. But to a 
plant lover it is a very interesting and 
satisfactory plant. 
We are getting plenty of flowers from 
the Paper White Narcissus grown in pots 
and have also a number of bulbs in 
water, and find them much more satisfac¬ 
tory for this purpose than the so-called 
Chinese sacred lily, Narcissus Tazetta. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Preparing Ground for Celery and Onions. 
C AN celery and onions be successfully 
grown with green manure and com¬ 
mercial fertilizer? What fertilizer 
should be used and when should it be 
applied? The soil is what I consider 
good garden soil, easy to work, but has 
not had any manure for several years. 
How would you prepare the land (two 
acre's) for the above mentioned crops? 
Detroit, Mich. it. a. s. 
The plan of growing green crops to 
turn under and then supplementing them 
with fertilizers works out quite well with 
many truck crops. Land that has been 
in a cultivated crop until the last of 
August may be sowed in rye, which is al¬ 
lowed to stand all Winter. In very early 
Spring this can be plowed and onion sets 
can be planted using fertilizer in the 
row. Such land, however, would, in most 
cases, be too loose and porous for best 
results with onions from seed. A green 
crop plowed under in midsummer, just 
before setting celery, would also work 
out badly in most cases, because the soil 
would not be compact enough for the soil 
moisture to rise from below. As a gen¬ 
eral rule I would say green crops should 
be worked in the soil and allowed to de¬ 
cay before such crops as onions or celery 
are planted. Celery works well here if 
grown after a crop of early white pota¬ 
toes has been taken off. 
For your two acres of land the ques¬ 
tion of green crops cannot be considered 
this year, because it is now too late to 
grow any crop before you will wish to 
plant. I would plow the ground just as 
soon as I could. For onions we use about 
12 tons of stable manure to the acre (a 
larger quantity would not go amiss on 
most soils). This is spread broadcast 
after plowing and well worked in with a 
disk harrow. In the row we distribute 
about 800 pounds of a 4-8-10 fertilizer. 
This year, on account of the war it will 
be about 4-8-3. The potash is derived 
from sulphate of potash; the phosphorus 
from phosphoric acid and the nitrogen 
from nitrate of soda, sulphate of am¬ 
monia, dried blood, fish and bone—equal 
amounts of each. This same fertilizer is 
excellent for celery, but most growers 
would apply about one ton to the acre. 
Celery is shallow rooted and requires 
plenty of plant food within easy reach. 
An application of 25 tons of manure to 
the acre is none too heavy, provided it 
is well worked in before planting time. 
TRUCKER JR. 
Early Sweet Corn For New Hampshire. 
C AN you tell me of a method by which 
I can obtain a very early crop of 
sweet corn for market? My place is 
in southern New Hampshire. The land 
is a light sandy loam. I would like to 
know the varieties most used for the pur¬ 
pose. My object is to get the crop as 
early as possible. F. P. S. 
Strathan.v N. FI. 
In order to get early sweet corn the 
land should be well filled with plant food 
the year before. Most growers of early 
corn use 10 to 15 cords of manure on 
the previous crop and from 1,000 to 1,500 
pounds of a 4-8-7 fertilizer. In the lo¬ 
cality of Boston the corn can be planted 
from May 1 to 10. Even then frosts 
sometimes take the crop. In New 
Hampshire probably the planting should 
be even later. There is nothing like a 
good cover crop of Crimson clover and 
Vetch sown in August the year previous. 
The clover may not winter well, but if 
a good Fall growth is made the clover 
roots and tops will greatly help the corn 
next year. For varieties Early Crosby 
and Corey are used mostly. These are 
short growing and allow cover crops or 
grass seed to be sown among the hills 
the stalks being cut out later to feed. Do 
not plant the seed too deep for early corn, 
one-half to one inch is deep enough, the 
latter if very dry. Keep the cultiva¬ 
tor at work and keep down all weeds. 
Sometimes corn is started in paper pots 
in a greenhouse or hotbed and then taken 
to the field and set without disturbing the 
ball of earth. This may seem a lot of 
work, but it can be carried out quite 
rapidly. There are many Government 
bulletins which may be found to contain 
valuable information about the corn crop 
in general. Consult Prof. Taylor of the 
New Hampshire Experiment Station. 
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