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a tit!; KUKAL NEW-YORKER 
December 11, 1915, 
The Home Acre 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
We are certainly enjoying the Grand 
Rapids lettuce. It grew so fast and is 
so large and brittle that it seems to be 
especially fitted for the Fall frames. 
Other frames planted with Rig Boston 
have a fine crop coming on, but will not 
he headed for use before Christmas or 
January, and the Grand Rapids plants 
were set the same day. Therefore it 
would seem to be the best practice always 
to have some of the Grand Rapids to 
fill in the gap between the outdoor let¬ 
tuce and the Christmas crop of head let¬ 
tuce. We can get more out of a frame 
of the Grand Rapids than of the Big 
Boston in the same space, for the Grand 
Rapids can be planted closer, and in fact 
should be planted rather close in order 
that the plants may blanch each other. 
The tulip flats have been brought in 
and will have a place near the hot water 
pipes to force them into bloom, and with 
plenty of green from the asparagus plants 
the flowers will fill the Christmas vases 
very prettily. 
In the Fall propagation of geraniums 
we now have little trouble. Formerly 
my practice was to put the cuttings into 
the propagating sand bed. But I found 
long ago that geraniums do not want the 
bottom heat, and that many rot in the 
bed. Then I began to pot the cuttings 
at once into 2^-inch pots, and put them 
on the benches at once. In this way 
hardly a cutting fails to root, and toward 
Spring they are shifted into four-inch 
pots and set in a frame under the double 
glazed sashes, and do far better than in 
the heated house. Sifted coal ashes are 
placed under the pots. Last Spring the 
geraniums went into the frame in late 
February, and were up to the glass by 
planting time. 
The difficulty in getting a good bloom 
on peonies' in our hot sandy soil is a 
problem that I have spent a good deal of 
time and labor trying to solve. Some 
time ago in a horticultural paper a writer 
said that one reason for the failure of 
these plants to bloom was too deep plant¬ 
ing. Now I have taken up all my plants, 
and have reset them on the shady north 
side of my office building, and have set 
them with the crown buds just under the 
surface, and am hoping for better results. 
Then there are other flowering plants 
that do not like too deep planting. I 
found that in planting the bulbs of Can- 
didum lilies with the crown of the bulbs 
several inches from the surface I got a 
string of offsets on the stems above the 
bulb, and the bulb itself increased very 
little in size. Then I abandoned this and 
planted the bulbs with only about 1% 
inch of soil over them, and found that 
we can produce as fine bulbs here as 
those imported from France. 
Tulips, planted too deep, will swell 
into a sort of bulb on the stem above 
the true bulb, and will not make good 
bulbs, while planted shallow we can make 
as fine bulbs as any sold by the import¬ 
ers. I am now testing some of my own 
growth of tulips for forcing. 
The hot and dry ripening period on the 
Narcissus bulbs results in American- 
grown Narcissus rather smaller bulbs 
than those grown in the moister climate 
of Southern England and the Channel 
Islands. But this early ripening makes 
the American-grown bulbs bloom earlier 
in the greenhouse than the imported ones. 
The florists are finding this out, and the 
Narcissus bulbs grown now largely in 
Southeastern Virginia and North Caro¬ 
lina are getting in great demand. 
Experiments will yet demonstrate that 
we have localities in various parts of the 
country where the bulbs now imported 
can be grown successfully. Local soils 
and climatic conditions often cause cer¬ 
tain plant industries to develop. The 
floral trade in this country and England 
all look now to a limited section in the 
neighborhood of Magnolia, N. C., for 
their supply of tuberose bulbs, and largely 
for Caladium esculentum. The peculiar 
black sandy soil there, with the water 
table only a short distance down, gives 
conditions especially favorable to these 
plants, and shuts out competition from 
localities with different conditions. I 
have seen there a field of 40 acres in 
Caladiums, looking like a vast spatter- 
dock marsh, and a 50-acre field in Can- 
nas. the growth and bloom of which tes¬ 
tified to the liking of the plants for the 
moist soil. And they pile the Canna 
roots in great windrows across the field, 
and cover them with soil in the Fall, 
ready to take up and ship in Spring, 
while we poor fellows have to store them 
carefully in a warm cellar. 
On a similar soil here strawberries are 
the profitable crop, while at Magnolia, N. 
O., they cannot grow a good shipping 
strawberry, while only a few miles away 
is the greatest strawberry shipping sec¬ 
tion of North Carolina. The Magnolia 
soil is all sand, while in the strawberry 
section there is a strong clay subsoil. 
In North Carolina, on a very similar 
soil to that which we have here, I grew 
thousands of splendid bulbs of Amaryllis 
.Tohnsoni and sold them to the northern 
trade for good prices. I tried them here, 
and after three years’ effort I had fewer 
bulbs than I started with, while the cli¬ 
mate down here near the sea seems al¬ 
most the same as that in the more ele¬ 
vated Raleigh section of North Carolina. 
The reasons for local peculiarities will 
make a good study for the experiment sta¬ 
tions, so that growers can be saved from 
making efforts to grow things not suited 
to their local conditions in soil and cli¬ 
mate both. w. F. MASSEY. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings. 
New York Palace Show, New York, 
Dec. 7-11. 
Maryland State Grange, annual meet¬ 
ing. Salisbury, Md., Dec. 7-9. 
Poultry Raisers’ Association of Ham- 
monton, N. J., fifth annual show. Ham- 
monton, N. J., Dec. 7-9. 
Diamond State Poultry and Pigeon 
Show, Wilmington, Del., Dec. 7-11. 
Delaware State Grange, Dover, Del., 
Dec. 14-16. 
Breeders’ and Dairymen’s Association 
annual meeting, Exposition Park, Ro¬ 
chester, N. Y„ Dec. 14-17. 
North Jersey Poultry Association, 
Newton, N. J.. Dec. 14-17. 
American Cheviot Sheep Society, Fay¬ 
etteville, N. Y., Dec. 18. 
Farmers’ Week, Pa., Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, State College, Pa., Dec. 27-Jan. 1. 
Philadelphia Poultry Show, Philadel¬ 
phia, Pa., Dec. 14-18. 
University Horticultural Society of 
Ohio State University, fifth annual show, 
Columbus, O., second week in December. 
Reading Pigeon and Poultry Associa¬ 
tion, annual show, Reading, Pa., Dec. 
6 - 11 . 
Pacific International Live Stock Ex¬ 
position, No. Portland, Ore., Dec. 6-11. 
Ninth annual corn show of Delaware 
corn growers, Seaford, Del., Dec. 8-11. 
Berks Corn Contest, Reading, Pa., 
Dec. 24. 
Pennsylvania State Grange, State Col¬ 
lege, Pa.. Dee. 21-24. 
Now York Poultry Show, Madison 
Square Garden, Dec. 31-Jan. 5. 
Annual Corn and Grain Show, Tracy, 
Minn., Jan. 3-8, 1916. 
American Delaine Merino Association. 
Columbus, O., Jan. 5. 
_ West Virginia State Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, Morgantown, W. Va., Jan. 5-6. 
N. Y. State Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, Rochester. Jan. 5-7. 
Peninsular Horticultural Society, Eas¬ 
ton. Md., Jan. 11-14. 
Boston Poultry Show, Boston, Mass., 
Jan. 11-15. 
Virginia State Horticultural Society, 
twentieth annual meeting and fruit ex¬ 
hibit, Charlottesville, Va., Jan. 12-13, 
1916. 
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Reading, Pa., Jan. 18-20. 
Vermont State Poultry Association an¬ 
nual show, St. Albans, Vt., Jan. 18-21, 
1916. 
New York State Agricultural Society, 
Albany, Jan. 19. 
New York State Association of County 
Agricultural Societies, Albany, N. Y., 
Jan. 20. 
National Western Stock Show, Den¬ 
ver, Colo., Jan. 17-22, 1916. 
Amherst Poultry Association second 
annual show, Amherst, Mass., Jan. 18- 
19, 1916. 
New Jersey Farmers’ Institutes. 
December 9th, Clarksburg, Monmouth 
County: December 10th, Red Bank, Mon¬ 
mouth County ; December 11th, Hopewell, 
Mercer County; December 13th. Cologne, 
Atlantic County; December 14th, Ham- 
monton, Atlantic County ; December 15th, 
Cold Spring. Cape May County; Decem¬ 
ber 16th, South Seaville. Cape May 
County; December 17th, Middlebush, 
Somerset County ; December 18th, South 
Branch, Somerset County; December 
20th, Matawan, Monmouth County; De¬ 
cember 21st, Hightstown, Mercer County. 
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