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Notes from a Maryland Garden. 
Insect Pests. —After more than a 
month of drought we have had some rain, 
and could very well take more. As usual 
after a mild Winter the insect pests are 
very abundant. I have never seen such 
a swarm of the tent caterpillars. In a 
neglected field near by are some wild 
cherry trees where they have made their 
webs, and from there have raided the 
neighborhood, and almost killed some of 
my roses before we could tackle them. 
Then the cutworms have been uncommon¬ 
ly abundant, and even an abundance of 
poisoned bran did not seem to stop them, 
so there has been a great deal of replac¬ 
ing cut-down tomato plants. 
Tomatoes. —May 12 the Bonny Best 
and Earliana tomatoes were blooming 
and setting fruit. The John Baer had 
not opened a flower, though if there is 
any difference, the plants are larger than 
the other varieties. This variety, while 
a good tomato did not come near to the 
claim of earliness made for it last year, 
and I am trying again on the same plot 
of land with all conditions alike to note 
its comparative earliness with Bonny 
Best and Earliana. 
Early Vegetables. —The early peas 
came into use the 13th of May. These 
are the Nonpareil, a selected strain of 
the Alaska, and I have found them ear¬ 
lier than the general strain of Alaska. 
Model beets sown in cold frame in Win¬ 
ter are now in use for the table, having 
been exposed without the glass for a good 
while. Those sown outdoors are not yet 
large enough, and in fact will not be for 
probably a month yet. Cutworms have 
been busy with the lettuce set for out¬ 
door heading, but what they have spared 
is growing and heading finely. These are 
May King and Hanson, for I never use 
the Big Boston for outside setting in 
Spring, though I do use it in the frames 
in Winter. But in Spring it bolts to 
seed with the first warm sun. 
Cedar Rust. —The rust is hard to 
banish from the apple leaves when it 
once gets hold, and no treatment will 
keep it off so long as the cedar trees re¬ 
main near it to supply spores every Spring. 
So long as the cedar trees remain near 
by there will be rust on the apple leaves 
every Summer. The only permanent 
remedy is to banish the cedar trees. I 
noticed in Delaware a large young apple 
orchard planted right up to an avenue of 
cedars leading to the farmhouse from the 
road. Now the avenue of trees is very 
beautiful, and the owner will hesitate 
long about cutting them down, but he 
will never have much profit from the ap¬ 
ples in that part of the orchard if the 
trees remain, and it will be merely* a 
question as to which are valued most, 
cedars or apples. 
Concrete Floors in Stables. —I once 
had a horse stable with concrete floors, 
both in stable and stalls, and found diffi¬ 
culty with the slipping of the stock. I 
nailed a two-inch strip to the stall posts 
and placed in each stall a layer of good 
clayey loam as deep as this strip. This 
acted very well as an absorbent of the 
urine, and once a week it went out with 
the manure, and was renewed. The gut¬ 
ters were daily covered with plaster after 
the manure was cleaned out, and this, too, 
went with the manure. The layer of 
earth made a very agreeable footing for 
the horses and mules, far better than 
plank, which will soon become very foul 
underneath, and the loam used made a 
good addition to the manure pile, and, 
with the plaster, prevented much heating 
till the wagon got it and hauled it out, 
which I did as learly daily as possible, 
for I wanted the manure to go as rapidly 
as possible where plant roots were wait¬ 
ing for it. 
Pithy Celery. 
In growing celery I trench about a 
foot deep and fill four to six inches with 
strong manure, then a little soil, and set 
plants four to six inches apart. My soil 
is a clay loam. I grow the White Plume 
and blanch by banking with earth. It 
grows large bunches and good height, but 
the stalks, instead of being crisp and 
meaty, are soft and spongy, except a few 
in center of bunch. Is my trouble in the 
fertilizer or in the variety? o. L. c. 
Montpelier, Vt. 
As nothing is said about when the seed 
v as sown, nor of the time the young 
plants were set out, one can only guess 
at the most probable cause of this celery 
being soft and spongy as described in the 
above letter, and that was the sow¬ 
ing of the seed too early, and too early 
planting in the field. Unless wanted for 
early use this seed should not be sown 
before the first week in April, in the 
open ground or on a spent hotbed, and 
be not transplanted to their permanent 
position before July 7 to 12. If given 
too long a season of growth, the plants 
after reaching maturity quite frequently 
begin preparations for sending up seed 
stalks, and while none actually appears, 
the fact that such growth is in progress 
will be readily noted by the lengthened 
growth of the plant at the collar or leaf 
base, and by the soft spongy texture of 
the leaf stalks, often to so great an ex¬ 
tent as to render all but a small portion 
of the heart entirely unfit for use. Some 
years ago I lost quite a large planting of 
green celery from this cause. The young 
plants were on the place I took charge 
of which was about the first of May; 
the plants were then of considerable 
size. Their rapid increase in size com¬ 
pelled us to set them out sometime in 
the fore part of June. They were fer¬ 
tilized moderately, and were given good 
care. The entire planting made a splen¬ 
did growth; the plants were very large, 
and when standing in the rows, had 
every appearance of being all that could 
be desired. But, when we come to dig 
them for Winter storage, we found every 
one had commenced eeed-stalk growth, 
and the leaf stalks had become spongy 
and fibrous, rendering the entire lot un¬ 
fit for use, except a small portion in the 
heart of each one. If the seed had been 
sown a month later and the plants set 
out about the middle of July, this would 
have been fine celery and could have 
been kept in good condition until along 
toward Spring. 
Highly stimulating manure should not 
be used in large quantity on celery in¬ 
tended for Winter use, as it will force 
the plants to maturity too early, and they 
are almost certain to become pithy and 
stringy before cold weather checks the 
deteriorating effect of the warm soil on 
the plant. Celery requires good soil and 
liberal fertilizing to bring it to a high 
state of perfection, but the manorial con¬ 
stituents should be of such a nature as to 
produce a moderately rapid growth of 
solid fibre, the plants being still in good 
growth at the approach of cold weather. 
Such plants will blanch well, and become 
crisp and of a fine nutty flavor. Old 
well rotted stable manure seems to meet 
all the requirements for producing such 
growth, and two or three inches placed 
in the bottom of the trench, and cov¬ 
ered with three inches or so of good fine 
soil, will meet every requirement of the 
plants, and with sufficient moisture pres¬ 
ent at all times, the crop will never be 
disappointing. The variety is immate¬ 
rial, as the same cause will produce the 
same effect on all varieties, though some 
sorts may not suffer as quickly as others. 
White Plume as a rule will not become 
pithy as quickly as some of the green 
sorts, at least I have found this to be 
true. k. 
Amoor River Privet. 
I note what Mr. Massey says about 
Amoor River privet. The variety he re¬ 
fers to is known as Amoor River South 
and while it is entirely evergreen where 
the I\ inters are not too severe, it is not 
hardy where the mercury goes much be¬ 
low zero, not quite as hardy as the Cali¬ 
fornia. Its foliage is smaller and not so 
glossy as the California, and where a 
green hedge in Winter is preferred it is 
more desirable than the California, whose 
foliage turns brown late in the • Fall. 
There is a variety called Amoor River 
North that is perfectly hardy but loses 
its foliage early in the Fall. 
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