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NOTES FROM A MARYLAND CARDEN. 
FINE batch of geraniums from last 
Fall's propagation, now in four-inch 
pots, have been moved from the green¬ 
house into a cold frame and set on a 
layer of coal ashes to prevent the roots 
running out. The frame is covered with 
double-glazed sashes, and it is interesting 
to note the different appearance the 
plants put on in their new quarters, for 
the little greenhouse, kept at a tempera¬ 
ture for starting Spring plants has been 
too warm for them, and they are taking 
on a different color and a darker green, 
and the horseshoe marks on many of 
them come out more distinctly than in 
the warm house. There is no danger 
now that frost will reach them under the 
double-glazed sashes, and they will ne 
in far better shape for bedding than 
taken directly from the house. 
The early tomato plants of Earliana, 
John Raer and Bonny Best are now in 
three-inch pots, and they too will shortly 
go into the frames and give room for pot¬ 
ting off the more tender eggplants and 
the flowering plants like scarlet Salvia, 
etc. 
Lettuce plants in the frames will soon 
he large enough to set in tin- open beds, 
and we are keeping them as hardy as 
ja‘ sible. These are Hanson and Wonder¬ 
ful. The Rig Boston, which is so good 
for Fall and Winter use, I drop in Spring 
because it blooms with the first touch of 
warm weather. Some lettuce seed has 
also been sown outside to make the latest, 
and a little later the curled endive will 
)><* sown to take the place of lettuce in 
hot weather. 
I have a lot of heavy paper plant pro¬ 
tectors which fold in a conical form with 
a small hole at top. These are good for 
tin- protection of tender plants in Spring 
and for shading them when first set out 
till they got hold of the soil. Then in 
Summer they come in very nicely for 
blanching the curled endive. 
Cuttings of hardy shrubbery are being 
set. These cuttings are. made of last 
year’s growth and about six inches long, 
and are set nearly full length in the soil. 
I am growing a lot of Spiraea Van 
Houttei for hedge. One of the prettiest 
hedges here is made of this shrub. It is 
sheared well as soon as the bloom is over, 
and slightly later, and when in bloom it 
is a very showy hedge, w. K. it ASSET. 
Muskmelons, Cucumbers and Marrows on 
Trellis. 
My garden each year has been quite 
successful, and I wish to experiment a 
little bit the coming season and would 
like to have your advice. Will it be pos¬ 
sible for me to raise cantaloupes like a 
vine, running them on a trellis, and if 
so, where can I get the netted bags that 
1 believe are used for this purpose? 
This question also applies to cucumbers 
and English marrow plants. What are 
the objections to this system of growing, 
aside from a little trouble? c. if. N. 
Brightwaters, N. Y. 
USKMELONS, cucumbers and veg<?- 
table marrows may be grown in this 
way quite successfully in the open, and 
aside from the trouble of training and 
tying them up, the only objection is in 
their being liable to more or less damage 
from heavy winds. The preparation of 
the soil should be quite thorough, and 
may be accomplished in the following 
manner. Lay off a strip of ground three 
feet wide the full length of the row, and 
if it can be run north and south all the 
bettor, as the plants will have the bene¬ 
fit of full sunlight on both sides during 
the day. Apply old well rotted manure 
! roadcast to the bed at least two inches 
thick, and spade it in, turning the soil 
at least a foot deep, thoroughly incor¬ 
porating the manure with the soil. Small 
posts or stout stakes may now be driven 
in the center of the bed every five or six 
feet apart, and standing 4*4 or five feet 
above ground, to which, poultry netting 
may be stapled, or No. 15 wires one foot 
apart may be used: either one will an¬ 
swer the purpose. Now open a shallow 
furrow with the hoe a little to one side 
of the wire, into which drill tin* seed in 
a continuous row about four inches apart. 
Keep the plants well cultivated from the 
start, and as soon as all danger from bugs 
is past the melons and cucumbers should 
be thinned to stand about two feet apart 
and the marrows four to five feet apart 
in the row. As soon as the plants show 
a tendency to run. training should begin. 
Two plans are in general practice. 
The best one consists of pinching out the 
tip of the vine when about 18 inches 
high. This stopping will force side shoots 
into growth. Three or four of these 
should be trained or tied in fan shape on 
the trellis, and as soon as they reach 
the top of the wire they should he stopped 
by pinching out the tips. No more vine 
should be allowed to grow than will nice¬ 
ly cover the wires without undue crowd¬ 
ing. The tying material should be soft, 
such as cotton tape or raffia, and the ties 
should be quite close together to hold 
these vines in place and to prevent break¬ 
ing from weight of fruits. The cucum¬ 
bers will not need bagging as a rule, as 
they are used before they reach maturity, 
and therefore seldom are allowed to re¬ 
main on the vines until their weight 
would require support to prevent dam¬ 
age. The melons, however, will have to 
be supported to relieve the vines of the 
weight and to prevent the fruits from 
dropping when ripe. I know of no spe¬ 
cial netted bags for this purpose. Some 
growers buy fine netting with meshes 
about two inches or thereabouts in size 
and make the bags as needed, but tin* 
most common method of giving supports 
is by the use of tape transversely around 
the fruits thus forming a sling, the ends 
of the tapes being securely tied to the 
wires. Raffia may also be used for the 
purpose. The marrows may be support¬ 
ed by bringing them to a horizontal posi¬ 
tion and swinging them in tape or raf¬ 
fia slings. If dry weather should en¬ 
sue. a heavy mulching of partially de¬ 
cayed straw or clippings from the lawn 
may be used. An occasional watering 
will be quite beneficial, soaking the soil 
well at each application. k. 
Gardening on Sandy Soil. 
I like Trucker Jr.’s gardening advice. 
Will you ask him to “prescribe” for a 
7%-acre farm which I own, lying just 
beyond New York C’ity limits on the 
south side of Long Island? Soil is the 
typical Norfolk sand of the area. It has 
been poorly farmed for years so that there 
is practically no humus left. I presume 
stable manure from Brooklyn would af¬ 
ford quickest restoration of fertility. 
Should this be supplemented with chemi¬ 
cals? How would Trucker Jr. go about 
it to secure returns this year? A. e. 
I do not know about farming on Long 
Island but would like to have those who 
do know make suggestions for that lo¬ 
cality. If I had a plot of sandy soil down 
here in South Jersey that was practical¬ 
ly devoid of humus and I wanted to get 
returns this year I would probably put 
that field in sweet potatoes, using well 
rotted stable manure in the row. After 
the field was brought up in fertility 1 
would use fertilizer in the row and apply 
manure on the preceding crops but with 
a poor sandy soil I believe well rotted 
manure would be best for results this 
year. After sweets were dug I would 
sow rye and topdress with manure dur¬ 
ing the Winter. Another crop that might do 
fairly well would be Fordhook bush Lima 
beans, using short manure in the row for 
these also and sow rye in.early Septem¬ 
ber at the last cultivation. Early toma¬ 
toes might be grown with success. They 
would probably come early but. the odds 
would be very much against a full yield. 
Whatever the crop I would not bank 
very heavy on the returns the first year 
or so. I would do my very best to make 
the crop pay a small profit but my ulti¬ 
mate object would be to get some vege¬ 
table matter into that soil in the shortest 
possible time. Stable manure, cover 
crops and catch crops would be used 
wherever and whenever possible. 
TRUCKER, ,IR. 
The auto fiend ran over an 
Embankment steep and sandy; 
He ran o'er the embankment—no 
Pedestrian was handy. 
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