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The Home Garden 
Notes from a Maryland Garden 
The area in sweet potatoes in this sec¬ 
tion was much in exce.ss of the usual acre¬ 
age, but there has been general disap¬ 
pointment in the crop. The weather has 
been too cool and wet for this crop, and 
the results are immense growths of vines 
and small potatoes. How much of this 
diminished size is due to the lack of pot¬ 
ash it is hard to say. When potash was 
abundant it was used in large percentage 
on sweet potatoes, the usual sweet po¬ 
tato fertilizer running two per cent am¬ 
monia, eight per cent phosphoric acid and 
10 per cent potash. This fertilizer cer¬ 
tainly made fine crops of sweet potatoes, 
and as our sandy .soil evidently is deficient 
in potash, it may be that the use of fer¬ 
tilizers with little or no potasb has had 
some influence on the crop. 
The season has been very favorable to 
cabbage and spinach. I have never had 
such ‘a rapid and early Fall growth of 
spinach, from seed sown in August, is 
spinach from seed sown, in August, is 
now showing a tendency to run to seed, 
and -p^ill have to he cut out at once. The 
second sowing in late October was in 
splendid condition for use or market, and 
having more than my family can con¬ 
sume, it went to the grocers at 8 1-3 cents 
a pound. The high price of spinach seed 
does not seem to have stopped people 
from buying it, for there seems to be 
more on our home market than I have 
ever noticed before, and yet the demand 
seems to keep pace with the supply. My 
last sowing of spinach, made in late Sep¬ 
tember, is showing finely all along the 
rows, and will get just large enough to 
winter for Spring cutting. 
The Fall-planted sets of the Yellow 
Potato onion, Norfolk Queen and Prize- 
taker, are now showing down the rows 
aboirt six inches tall. By the middle of 
November I had turned a fun-ow to each 
side the row.s with the little hand garden 
plow as a Winter protection, to be pulled 
away in the Spring. The Norfolk Queen 
is not the Queen onion of the Northern 
catalogues, but a very early white onion 
of good size. It makes the earliest of 
green onions, sometimes in mild Winters 
being ready for pulling in late February, 
and always in March. Thi.s is the first 
time I have tried the Prizetaker from 
ripened sets planted in the Fall. I ex¬ 
pect as usual to sow some seed in a 
frame in January and transplant the 
green plants to the open ground in March. 
This method has always resulted in good 
crops of large onions, but if sets will do 
as well I can save the Winter use of 
glass for other purposes. 
Another question to be settled is the 
hardiness of the bulbs, and it remains to 
be seen whether they will winter well. 
The Yellow Potato onion was formerly 
more largely planted in the South, but 
of late years the Norfolk growers have 
been using Yellow Globe Danvers more 
for the Fall planting. I always grow 
some sets of the Norfolk Queen, for the 
folks in our house want some little white 
onions for pickles, and there are always 
a lot of the onions that get rather large 
for sets, which I can turn over to the 
kitchen department, for I do not want a 
set larger than a boy’s playing marble, 
and not much smaller, either. 
Today I gathered what is probably the 
last of the Pimiento peppers, though the 
plants are still loaded with little pods. 
This variety is a great cropper, and keeps 
it up to the last, for my plants were 
started with the early tomatoes. The 
late Irish potatoes were green in late 
October, and growing and blooming. 
It is well that bard frost keeps off, 
for a large area of Irish, potatoes here 
was planted too late, and the crop is by 
no means mature. But there is a tre¬ 
mendously increased area planted, and 
most of the fields are promising. The 
season could not have been more favor¬ 
able to this crop, while not favorable to 
the tender sweet potatoes. Owners of 
potato curing-houses for the sweet po¬ 
tatoes are rather uneasy about the scaro 
ity of hard coal, which is the only fuel 
they use, the heating generally being done 
with furnace and flues, though one grow¬ 
er who is akso a florist, heats his potato 
house with hot-water pipes from the same 
source that heats his greenhouses. Arti¬ 
ficial heat is only needed for about a week 
after storing, and occasionally in very 
cold snaps in Winter. The average tem¬ 
perature needed after curing is not above 
50 nor lower than 45, and in well-built 
houses these temperature can usually be 
maintained without fire heat. To dry the 
potatoes off after storing a temperature 
of 85 to 90 is needed till the potatoes 
show signs of sprouting, and this must be 
checked. w. F. MASSEY. 
Asparagus in an Orchard 
Several years ago I wrote to a number 
of experiment stations and farm publica¬ 
tions, The R. N.-Y. among them, for ad¬ 
vice on the subject of growing a.sparagus 
in young orchard. Replies were about 
equally divided, favorable and unfavor¬ 
able. I decided to try it, and it has 
worked out all right. Asparagus has 
been good and trees have done finely. Of 
course, manure has been given each year, 
and plenty of water, but considerably less | 
cultivation than we should have liked, 
on account of pressure of other w'ork. 
We consider that the plan was a success, 
under our conditions; perhaps it would 
not have been elsewhere. Trees will prob¬ 
ably begin bearing this coming season; if 
they do, will plow the asparagus out. 
New Mexico. c. E. L. 
Raspberries for the Garden 
Tell J. M., Cokesville, Pa., who in¬ 
quires regarding raspberries, page 12.39, 
that the Columbian is not a red, but re¬ 
sembles the blackcap in everything but 
color, which is a very dark red, often 
called purple. I planted a few Colum¬ 
bians some years ago in my garden, and 
my experience with them and what I have 
observed of them in other places inclines 
me to think it the greatest bearer and 
most vigorous grower in this part of New 
York of any berry now under cultivation. 
The fruit is very large, but owing to its 
dingy color and poor carrying quality it 
has to be sold much below blackcaps. 
The Ciithbert is a true red berry, and 
what Prof. Massey says of it in Maryland 
will be found true here in one of the 
greatest fruit regions in the country. 
There are practically no other red rasp¬ 
berries grown here and the Cuthbert is 
recognized as the most profitable. 
For the home 'garden I prefer the Shaf¬ 
fer to any other. It is a “purple” berry 
and not quite hardy here, but the flavor 
is much better than Columbian. While 
Shaffer is not so rank a grower as the 
Columbian, it grows fully as well as other 
sorts, and by bending the canes to the 
ground and covering lightly with straw, 
Winter injury can be prevented. 
Monroe Co., N. Y. w. A. landers. 
More About the Grape Seed Chalcis 
On page 1232 is an inquiry in relation 
to the Grape-seed chalcis and methods 
of its control. This insect is gaining a 
foothold in various parts of the country, 
and appears to be doing considerable 
damage in many vineyards. The mature 
insect punctures a small hole in the grapes 
soon after the berries have formed, and 
deposits one or more eggs in the seed 
cavity. Upon hatching the minute worms 
make their way into the seeds and feed 
upon the kernel. The result is that the 
affected berries apparently ripen when 
about two-thirds grown, and either decay, 
or wither and fall to the ground. There 
appears to be no variety of grape that is 
immune, but is has been noticed that the 
smaller kinds are attacked in preference 
to the large varieties, and that the native 
wilxi grapel suffers many tim'es more 
severely than any domesticated grape. 
It is possible that a thorough spraying 
with arsenate of lead, imme(iiately after 
the berries "have formed, might have some 
effect, hut it is hardly probable that this 
remeciy can be relied upon, since it seems 
probable that the adult insect would 
have sufficient time in which to deposit 
her eggs after biting into the fruit, and 
before the poison would take effect. 
The most logical method of control 
appears to be the planting of wild grapes 
in the infested vineyard. These will be 
attacked in preference to the domesticated 
varieties, presumably on account of the 
greater ease with which the seed-cavity 
may be reached. These grapes may then 
be picked and destroyed, or the vines, 
even, pulled and burned; and it would 
seem that two or three years should be 
sufficient to rid an infested plantation 
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