C»c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
835 
The Home Garden 
Notes from a Maryland Garden pan of water covered with kerosene. I 
Tlie strawberry crop of this section is 
now nearing its end, and the late'berries 
are coming in. The crop is an unusually 
light one, but the price at the stations has 
kept up very well. The village of Fruit- 
land, three miles south of this city, is the 
market for a wide extent on the railroad 
north and south. There all the buyers 
congregate, and at times there is active 
competition for the best berries. To-day 
(May 24) large berries like llig Joe 
are still bringing over 10 cents a quart 
at the'car, and earlier the price has been 
much higher. Hence the growers are in 
very good spirits. Letters from growers 
of early Irish potatoes in the South Car¬ 
olina coast section are very anxious to 
know when the Virginia potatoes will 
come in. The -prospect is, as I feared, 
rather unpromising for profit in the early 
crop. All Winter I kept urging the South¬ 
ern growers to go slow on early potatoes, 
but now from the Yonge’s Island section 
of South Carolina they write that an 
unusu:illy large area was planted. In 
spite of the worst prospect for the early 
Southenr croji. people rvill plant when 
the last season was a profitable one, 
though as a rule a profitable season is 
usinilly followed by an unprofitable one, 
mainly because of this heavy planting 
because of the profit the previous season. 
With the North overloaded with po¬ 
tatoes from the crop of 1!)17 it should 
have been evident to anyone who reads 
that this was not the time to increase 
the usual planting of early iwtatoes. Fri¬ 
day. May 24, Florida new potatoes sold 
in Kichmond, Va., for $1 a bushel. That 
looks as though the Florida grower would 
be out of pocket. By the time the barrel 
and cover and the freight are paid he 
will not have even a 2.o-cent dollar for the 
potatoes. 
The English pea Gradus is certainly a 
pea of excellent quality, but after four 
years’ trial I have not found it really as 
early as claimed, and I have never had a 
fairly good crop from it. I sow a few of 
the extra earlies of the Alaska type to 
give us the earliest taste of peas, but for 
a succession we want something of better 
quality. Gradus, like the Golden Ban¬ 
tam corn, is fine, but it is aggravating to 
get so little of it. With me the old 
Champion of England is less than a week 
behind it. I’erhaps it may be said that I 
have not had the true Gradus. but, hav¬ 
ing it from several of the first seedsmen in 
the country. I find all are the same thing. 
Sutton’s Excelsior and Thomas T.axton 
make fur me far better succession to the 
extra early peas than the Gradu.s. and 
ai'e good and earlier, too, and give a 
good crop, which Gradus never does. 
Another plant which is of good quality 
and valuable, seems to have a constitu¬ 
tional weakue.ss. This is the Black Beau¬ 
ty eggplant. It demands constant nurs¬ 
ing to get good strong plants, while the 
New Y'ork, right aloisgside, gi’ows olT with 
the greatest robustness. After a while 
the Black Beauty gets to growing and 
usually makes fruit earlier than tlu- New 
\ oi'k. but it is a weakling to get started. 
I have both varieties now growing in the 
garden, and the difference in the plants 
of the same age is remarkable. In fact. I 
am still nursing some in the greenhouse 
as a reserve force to fill out casualties. 
'I’he first planting of corn consisted of 
two rows each of Golden Bantam. Golden 
Cream and Stowtdl's Evergreen. These 
will come in close succes.sion. and all 
plantings now and hereait(‘r will be of 
Stowell. The second of this is just fairly 
above the ground. When this i)lanting is 
about six inches high antdher planting 
will be made, and so on till late ,Tuly. 
when a planting of Kendall’s Giant will 
go in along with Stowell, as it is earlier 
and may save some if the Stowell is 
caught by frost. 
I never bad an easier victory over the 
Colorado beetles on the potatoes.. I used 
lead ar.seuate powder, one part to 50 
parts of air-slaked lime, and dusttnl it over 
the potatoes. On a small scale I find it 
less labor than spraying, and effective if 
renewed xvhen washed off. 
^Ve are now in our annual battle with 
the rose chafers. I have tried all sorts 
of sprays, and find that about the only 
thirg effective is to shake them off into a 
have covered a rose bush with lead ar¬ 
senate and they failed to notice it at all. 
M e have to fight them daily or we would 
get no grapes at all. as they are espe¬ 
cially fond of grape bloooms.. 
The Hanson and the IVonderful let¬ 
tuces still hold well, while all the Butter 
lettuces have gone to seed. 
In the flower garden the hollyhocks now 
hold the stage, but the Gladioli that 
were planted in March are throwing up 
their blooming stems and will soon be 
gay. For the best results I think it a 
mistake to start Cannas in pots with the 
idea of getting effect earlier. This Spring 
I bought a lot of the new sorts w'hich the 
florist had started in four-inch pots and 
at the same time planted my own dry 
roots. Today those dry rhizomes are beat¬ 
ing the started plants, and a bed of old 
King Humbers is a long way ahead of the 
yellow one which I bought this season. 
This is the first time I have used the 
started plants, and it will be the last. I 
have the Skinner overhead irrigation on 
but part of my garden, but here near the 
ocean we have such constant xvinds that I 
can catch the xvind in the right direction, 
shoot the water straight up in the air 
and water .50 feet beyond the end of the 
pipe. Hope that wind will not blow some 
Hun bomb down on us. The sea serpent 
is not in it this year at the seaside re¬ 
sorts. W. F. JtASSEY. 
Spray for Garden Crops 
Can you give me information on solu¬ 
tions to use for spraying garden vege¬ 
tables. such ns tomatoes, beams, carrots 
and Ted raspberries? There is a worm 
on the berries.that eats the young canes. 
Rochester, Mich. F. s. 
Insects Avhich eat the foliage may be 
easily poi.soned by applying the poi.son to 
the leaves which they are devouring. The 
material generally msed is one ounce of 
ar.senate of lead paste in one gallon of 
water. The pests which may be con¬ 
trolled by this method include potato 
bugs, tomato worms, cabbage worms, as- 
j)aragus beetles, striped cucumber beetles, 
etc. 
That class of insects which do not eat 
the foliage and live by sucking the juice 
out of the plants cannot be killed Avith a 
stomach poison, because there is no way 
to get the poison where the insects will 
eat it. I’lant lice belong to this class, 
and they can be killed by spraying a 
strong solution of suffocating tobacco ex¬ 
tract directly onto the bodies. The best 
material made for the purpose is made up 
of one pint of tobacco extract (40 per 
cent nicotine sulphate), 75 gallons of 
water and three pounds of dissolved soap. 
A very hard class to combat comprises 
the hard-.‘<helled insects, such as the stink 
bugs, striped cucumber bettles. flea beet¬ 
les, etc. They are killed by mechanical 
means or else objectionable conditions are 
established so that -they go away. IMost 
insects abhor the presence of dust, air- 
slaked lime, tobacco dust, sulphur, etc. 
The leaves of tomatoes, cantaloupes, cu¬ 
cumbers. beans, carrots, potatoes, celery, 
etc., are subject to various diseases of 
the foliage Avhich are spoken of as 
“blight”: most of these may be checke;' 
somewhat in their development by siuaiy- 
ing with Bordeaux mixture. This con¬ 
tains lime and dissolved copper sulphate 
mixed in a certain particular manner. 
Most of the small truckers and all of 
the home gardeners would find it much 
easier and more economical to buy a 
readymade combination spray material 
containing a stomach poison for the in- | 
sects and Bordeaux for the checking of 
the leaf diseases. There are several excel- ; 
lent mixtures on the markdt. After the 
lunetioii of the various spray materials 
is once understood it is very easy, but 
until then the beginner had better have 
the advice and supervision of an expei'i- 
enced good grower. Stalk borers, squash 
vine borers and wilts of various kinds are 
within the stem and of course cannot be 
affected by any kind of spray. k. d. u. i 
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