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THE RURAt NEW-YORKER 
May 8, 101 o. 
The Home Acre 
iug them from not only the best specimen 
fruit, but from the plants that show the 
most vigor, for there seems to be some 
weakness in the stock that needs breed¬ 
ing out. Excelsior is more of the shape 
of the New York, and makes larger 
fruits, though perhaps not so many as 
Black Beauty. 
There are some things which I always 
find best to grow from seed of my own 
saving. I am fond of growing Dahlias 
from seed and have tried seed offered by 
several seedsmen. The best results were 
from seed from Oregon, but as a rule I 
get better flowers from seed of my own 
saving, and by growing a lot of seedlings 
annually I have been able to select a 
stock that to me seems to be as good as 
or better than those on the market. 
In our light soil and warmer climate 
we cannot get the splendid bloom on the 
peony which makes these plants so at¬ 
tractive in the Northern section. Even in 
the upper part of this Peninsula, in 
strong clay loam the peony blooms mag¬ 
nificently, while here the flowers are 
much less abundant usually, and in some 
seasons the later ones fail to bloom but 
simply dry up their buds. I have been 
more successful with these than most of 
my neighbors, and it is mainly a matter 
of feeding, for I find that we must fill 
Twenty-year-old Bartlett Top-worked on Kieffer 
at Two or Three Years of Age. Fig. 249. 
venting the swelling of the fruit buds. 
Should no disaster come later, it really 
looks as though the peach crop should be 
good. It is now the end of the first week 
in April and my peach buds have not 
swelled at all. 
Plants of Bonny Best, John Baer and 
Earliana tomatoes are in the frames, all 
from same sowing time and treated ex¬ 
actly in the same way. These plants will 
go out the same day, and side by side in 
soil of identical character and treatment. 
Find Point of Union. Fig. 251. 
NOTES FROM A MARYLAND GARDEN. 
The brilliant sunshine is bringing 
things on fast, and the main trouble I 
apprehend with my tomato plants is that 
they will get too large in the frames. 
Our weather man reports but two cloudy 
days in March. The brightest, driest 
March I remember. Warm, sunny days 
and frosty nights prevailed, and the 
frosty nights had a good effect in pre- 
Ar.otlier Example of Top-working. Fig. 250. 
As the soil is light and warm it should 
be easy to determine the relative earli¬ 
ness of these varieties. 
There seems to be a lack of vigor in 
all the seed of Black Beauty eggplant 
on the market. They germinate slowly 
and are more subject to the damping-off 
fungus like all weaklings. I sowed two 
flats with eggplant seed, one Maule’s 
Excelsior and the other Black Beauty. 
The Excelsior seed came quickly and 
grew off strongly. The Black Beauty 
seed were slow in germinating, and the 
weaklings soon began to damp off. 
Pricked out into fresh soil they continued 
to damp off and were just fairly alive 
in reduced number when the Excelsior 
seedlings were ready for 2% inch pots. 
I like the Black Beauty, but am always 
short of the plants. This Summer I 
hope to save some seed of my own, tak- 
our sandy soil with ,vegetable decay and 
mulch heavily in Spring with manure in 
order to get the strong growth and to 
retain the moisture that is essential to 
their success. I cover my peony bed in 
the Fall heavily with manure. This is 
forked in in the early Spring and after 
the shoots are well above the ground the 
bed is again mulched with manure. 
In the warmest corner of the garden I 
sow some seed of the Black Valentine 
bean the first week in April. This is of 
course risky, but I seldom fail, for when 
they are up, should frost threaten I sim¬ 
ply throw a furrow over them with the 
garden hand plow, and they can be saved 
from quite a frost. The Black Valentine 
is much more resistant to chilly weather 
than the Red Valentine, but not so good 
a bean. I plant some of the red the mid¬ 
dle of the month. 
I usually plant a little of the Norfolk 
Market corn the latter part of March. 
This year this planting was made April 
2, and on the third it was covered with 
snow, but as the weather turned warm 
there will be no harm done. When a 
white frost comes after corn is up I get 
out before sunrise and wash the frost 
off with cold water and have always 
saved the corn in this way. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Our Improved 1913 
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